Jordy Van Der Haegen
Back End Developer at Esign
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolJordy Van Der Haegen is a Back End Developer based in the Ghent metropolitan area with nine years of professional experience building reliable server-side systems. At Esign he progressed from a full-stack intern to a senior back-end role, focusing on pragmatic, maintainable PHP solutions and integrations. He contributes to open-source tooling such as the picqer/exact-php-client, where he improved token refresh handling, rate-limit management and generator-based model handling—demonstrating attention to API ergonomics and long-running process reliability. With a background in graphic and digital media, he brings a design-aware perspective to engineering, often bridging product needs and technical constraints. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem-solver who favors clear abstractions and incremental, well-tested improvements.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Grafische en Digitale Media, Bachelor's degree, Grafische en Digitale Media at Arteveldehogeschool
Github Skills (5)
php10
api10
generator9
inheritance8
fest7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
picqer/exact-php-client
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
PHP Client library for Exact Online
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jordy's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the PHP client library for Exact Online. They refactored and added functionality to the `Connection` class, incorporating features like refresh token callbacks and rate limit management. Furthermore, the user introduced generator support and improved inheritance within the codebase, impacting how models are yielded and filtered. The changes also touched upon model structure and query handling.
php-clientclient-libraryphpphp-library
esign/laravel-redirects
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
A laravel package to control redirects from the database or other sources.
Contributions:6 releases, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
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