Mark Van Den Broek
Principal Consultant at in.spiratie.nl (Spiratie)
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMark Van Den Broek is a Principal Consultant and seasoned IT strategist with 11+ years’ experience helping Dutch government organizations professionalize ICT projects, procurement and architecture. He founded in.spiratie.nl and leads MvR Consulting, combining hands-on software architecture and project management with deep domain knowledge in land use, water management and heritage protection. Mark pairs practical open-source contributions to the Laravel ecosystem—improving core string handling, package skeletons and the Horizon dashboard—with a proven track record running complex procurements and standards programs for municipalities and national agencies. He excels at translating policy and operational needs into standards, RFPs and viable technical solutions that scale across public-sector organizations. Colleagues value his blend of technical rigor, team-building and procurement expertise that reduces vendor risk and speeds delivery. Based in The Hague, he brings a rare mix of backend development chops and public-sector governance experience to digital transformation programs.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Cals College
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (33)
application-framework10
dependency-management10
strings10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
testing10
text-manipulation10
package-development10
app-framework10
laravel10
queuing10
php10
package10
web-framework10
documentation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spatie/laravel-model-states
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
State support for models
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 58 commits, 48 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing typos, improving documentation, and refactoring code to enhance the project's quality and readability. They also addressed issues related to code style, and added missing test annotations. The user's work focuses on the model state management within the Laravel framework, ensuring that the code is clean and accurate.
state-managementfsm-libraryfsmstatemachinelaravel
spatie/package-skeleton-laravel
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
A skeleton repository for Spatie's Laravel Packages
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 30 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of a Laravel package skeleton. They excluded the vendor directory, refactored the configuration script, updated the README, and added a placeholder. Furthermore, the user adjusted test-related code and fixed namespaces within the project. The user also made several updates to the project configuration files, updating wording and implementing more modern practices.
laravel-sskeletonphplaravel-packagesspatie
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