Lukas Smith
Lead Software Development IntelliProcure at 2hearts
Windisch, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLukas Smith is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 18+ years building resilient web and backend systems, currently leading IntelliProcure development at Berner Fachhochschule and serving as CTO of Witty Works. He combines hands-on system architecture and startup product leadership with deep expertise in PHP and Symfony, having been PHP 5.3 release manager and a long-time contributor to core projects like Symfony, Doctrine and FOSRestBundle. Lukas has a track record of improving developer tooling, testing and serialization internals, and has driven security and process initiatives such as ISO 27001 adoption at Liip. Equally comfortable in code and documentation, he has authored and refined framework docs, bundles and testing utilities that are widely used across the Symfony ecosystem. Based in Switzerland, he is active in community-building for diverse tech talent and brings a practical mix of open-source stewardship, product focus, and enterprise-grade engineering discipline. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate low-level protocol and migration intricacies into maintainable platform features that scale in real projects.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at New CollegeEconomics, Economics at Freie Universität BerlinDiplom Computer Science, Diplom Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
url-routing10
transaction10
restructuredtext10
testing10
phpunit10
security10
deserialization10
transactionscope10
elasticsearchquery10
persistence10
aws-elasticsearch10
sonata10
symfony-ux10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
liip/LiipImagineBundle
Jul 2011 - May 2021
Symfony Bundle to assist in image manipulation using the imagine library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 316 commits in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily worked on improving the image manipulation Symfony Bundle. They refactored the controller, added features such as format conversion, caching control, and custom loader support. Additionally, the user enhanced the data loader, implemented cache path resolution, and updated the templating features, adding a level of flexibility and support for image optimization and access.
manipulationbundlephpsymfony-bundleimagine
FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle
Mar 2011 - May 2020
This Bundle provides various tools to rapidly develop RESTful API's with Symfony
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 1255 commits, 279 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lukas's primary contribution involved the initial implementation of the LiipViewBundle code, introducing the `RestView` class. This class is designed to handle response formatting for RESTful APIs, including encoding data for JSON, XML, or rendering templates for HTML. Further commits show the renaming of the `RestView` class to `View` and various refactoring of the annotation and template listeners in the context of a Symfony bundle.
apibundlephpsymfony-bundleapi-s
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