Joshua De Gier
Web Developer at Pendo
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua De Gier is a self-taught web developer and founder of Pendo, a Maastricht-based web agency, with 12 years of hands-on experience building web applications since completing his Bachelor of Science. He combines practical front- and back-end work—especially in Laravel—while contributing to open-source packages like laravel-sluggable and beautymail, improving localization, slug generation, and HTML email styling. Joshua’s work shows attention to detail in both developer experience (adding language and separator options, tests) and design flexibility (injectable CSS for email templates). He runs his agency day-to-day, turning client needs into maintainable code and reusable components, and brings a pragmatic, product-minded approach rooted in long-standing curiosity about technology.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Zuyd Hogeschool | Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
modeler10
modelio10
php10
modello10
laravel10
modeling10
modelica10
laravel-mix10
test-automation10
testing10
e-mail8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
snowfire/Beautymail
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on modifying and extending the functionality of the `beautymail` package, specifically in the context of HTML email generation. They updated template files (button, minty, sunny, widgets, and ark), likely adjusting the appearance, structure, or content of the emails. A significant portion of the work involved introducing a `$css` variable to incorporate custom CSS styles into the generated emails, improving flexibility and design control. The user's changes also included updates to the service provider.
html-emailshtml-emailphpemailemails
spatie/laravel-sluggable
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
An opinionated package to create slugs for Eloquent models
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the `laravel-sluggable` package by modifying and extending its core functionalities. They updated the `SlugOptions` and `HasSlug` classes, introducing new options for language customization and generating language-specific slugs. Furthermore, they wrote and modified integration tests, including tests for language-specific slug generation, and testing separator options.
slugifymodelphpslugslugs
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