Summary
Korstiaan De Ridder is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering work across PHP, C++, FreeBSD, and Drupal. He currently drives development at Gites and previously spent 17 years at Hoppinger where he combined hands-on coding (Symfony, Rails, .NET Core, React, TypeScript) with architecture, sprint planning, code review and mentoring responsibilities. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he has deep practical experience in headless CMS implementations, automated testing (RSpec, Cucumber, PHPUnit) and CI/deployment tooling like Capistrano. Known as a reliable heavyweight for cross-team rescue and SLA-driven projects, he regularly translates product goals into estimable user stories and actionable technical designs. Educated in computer science in the Netherlands, he pairs pragmatic engineering with operational sensibility shaped by early work in test automation and ESA-related requirements analysis.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Leiden University
HBO, Computer Science, HBO, Computer Science at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences