Lou Van Der Laarse
Senior Software-ingenieur at BNNVARA
Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLou Van Der Laarse is a senior software engineer based in Hoofddorp with 11 years of experience building and stabilizing web platforms and developer tooling. He specializes in Symfony, Drupal multisite architectures, cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, ECS, Terraform) and resilient messaging systems, and currently applies these skills at BNNVARA. At DEPT® he led nearshoring standardization and complex Drupal commerce and CDN/WAF integrations, while mentoring junior engineers and streamlining CI/CD. An active open-source contributor, Lou improved the widely used Valet+ PHP dev environment, enhancing multi-site Drupal support, PHP version switching and PECL management. He pairs pragmatic backend and DevOps craftsmanship with a background in privacy-focused research from his graduation, making him attuned to operational stability and compliance.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 7,66, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 7,66 at Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Github Skills (8)
homebrew10
php10
devops10
development-environment10
php-fpm9
mysql5
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
weprovide/valet-plus
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
Blazing fast macOS PHP development environment
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 33 commits, 82 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lou primarily contributed to improving the Valet+ PHP development environment, focusing on backend configuration and system integration. Their work includes adding features to the Drupal driver for multi-site support and fixing issues with valet domain settings for services. The user also addressed various installation problems, including deprecated dependencies, and introduced improvements to PECL extension management and PHP version switching. These changes collectively enhanced the stability and functionality of the development environment.
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tamtamnl/valet-plus
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Blazing fast macOS PHP development environment
Contributions:31 commits, 86 pushes, 22 branches in 9 months
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