Johnny Van De Laar
Engineering Manager at Pararius
Netherlands
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Top SchoolJohnny Van De Laar is an engineering manager and hands-on PHP specialist with 11+ years building web platforms, now leading multiple teams at TreeHouse NL. He blends deep Laravel and Drupal expertise with practical experience in Symfony, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Docker, and champions readable, developer-first code alongside VueJS for modern frontends. A longtime open-source advocate, he has contributed to community packages and organized meetups and code sprints, reflecting his belief that transparent, auditable software and strong developer communities yield better outcomes. He pairs technical leadership with Agile fluency—holding Scrum Master credentials—and has delivered solutions for Dutch ministries and enterprise clients like TNT and Brill. Early work across Java, AI-related projects, and embedded/PLC systems gives him a broad engineering perspective that informs pragmatic system design. Based in the Netherlands, he combines product-oriented team leadership with continued hands-on development and community stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ing. Technical Informatics, Ing. Technical Informatics at Avans University of Applied SciencesIr. Computer Science, Ir. Computer Science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyPrimary school, Primary school at Vondel School RoosendaalHAVO Natuur & Gezondheid, HAVO Natuur & Gezondheid at Gertrudis College
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (85)
api-platform10
swagger10
hypermedia10
bundle10
laravel10
php-framework10
api10
rest10
hal10
symfony-bundle10
symfony10
laravel-form10
php10
graphql10
json-ld10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Pararius/action-yarn-upgrade
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 7 reviews, 12 PRs in 1 year 10 months
jvdlaar/vvschijf-netlify
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 165 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 5 months
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