Kristof Van Cauwenbergh
Software Developer at Fonz
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolKristof Van Cauwenbergh is a backend-focused software developer with 14 years of experience building scalable PHP/Symfony applications and cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes). He has led teams and QA efforts in enterprise settings, authored high-concurrency microservices, and designed REST APIs and integrations with Java/Python services and message queues. A certified PHP developer and active contributor to the popular Kunstmaan CMS, he has hands-on experience extending media handling, video integrations and refactoring core Symfony bundles. Based in Leuven, he combines consultancy and leadership as CEO of Fonz while continuing product work at Clearfacts by Wolters Kluwer. Known for a pragmatic TDD/BDD approach and strong operational sense, he bridges development, deployment and observability in production systems. Colleagues rely on him for durable backend architectures and practical, well-tested solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master toegepaste informatica Gedistribueerde systemen en veilige software, Master toegepaste informatica Gedistribueerde systemen en veilige software at KU LeuvenBachelor toegepaste informatica software development, Bachelor toegepaste informatica software development at Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
Dutch, English, French, German
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Github Skills (14)
doctrine10
media-manager10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
elasticsearch6
authentication6
multilingual6
translation6
architecture6
phpunit6
fullscreen6
fosuserbundle6
facebook6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kunstmaan/KunstmaanBundlesCMS
Nov 2011 - Jan 2016
An advanced yet user-friendly content management system, based on the full stack Symfony framework combined with a whole host of community bundles. It provides a full featured, multi-language CMS system with an innovative page and form assembling process, versioning, workflow, translation and media managers and much more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:417 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kristof's commits primarily involve the implementation and modification of code within the Kunstmaan MediaBundle, particularly focusing on the Helper and Entity classes for managing media content. They are involved in refactoring the code, fixing fixtures, adding and modifying functionality for handling video content, including adding new video types (Vimeo, Youtube, Dailymotion) and associated entities and controllers. Furthermore, the user is responsible for updates in relation to the Media menu and also fixing a bug in image selection when editing.
cmsfull-featuredmulti-languagetranslationcontent-management-system
exesser/exess
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Components for an open source content-management system implemented with Symfony
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cmscms-frameworkmanagement-systemphpsymfony-bundle
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