John Bakker
Senior Software Engineer at Sollas Holland
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJohn Bakker is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with over two decades of experience designing and programming packaging and printing machine controls for international markets. He has progressed from hands-on technical service and team leadership to long-term senior engineering roles, blending PLC, drive, and motion-controller expertise with embedded software development. At Sollas Holland he continues to deliver complex machine control solutions, and his open-source contributions include improving asynchronous I/O for a PHP EPP client, showing a knack for refining protocol-driven systems. Comfortable on-site with customers and in the codebase, he pairs practical field troubleshooting with architecture-level improvements. Trained in electronics at Inholland University, he brings both electrical understanding and software fluency to automation challenges. A maker and artist at heart, he often bridges hardware and software in elegant, pragmatic solutions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ing., Electronics, ing., Electronics at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (4)
asynchronous10
php10
async10
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
metaregistrar/php-epp-client
Jun 2015 - Jan 2020
Object-oriented PHP EPP Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the non-blocking asynchronous capabilities of the PHP EPP client. They added and modified code to support asynchronous read/write operations, improving the client's ability to handle EPP protocol interactions more efficiently. Several commits centered around refining the `eppConnection` and `eppResponse` classes to facilitate asynchronous message handling. Further work was done to refactor the code and address potential bugs and compatibility issues within the library.
epp-clientphppackagistrfctld
webdevvie/epp
Jun 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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