Martin Århof
Senior Backend Developer at Boozt
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Århof is a Senior Backend Developer based in Copenhagen with 13 years of experience building and migrating client/server applications and relational databases. He brings hands-on expertise across backend systems, Symfony bundles, and storage abstractions (notably adding Flysystem support and master-request fixes), while also contributing front-end improvements to widely used projects like MopaBootstrapBundle. Comfortable as developer, DBA, and project manager, Martin has a practical eye for usability and integration—his work spans XML/HTML/JavaScript, CSS, and WYSIWYG tooling alongside robust test automation contributions (e.g., extending Faker with performant color providers). He favors migration projects and close collaboration with database vendors, turning legacy systems into maintainable, modern platforms.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
HG1, Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General, HG1, Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General at Ringsted-Sorø HandelsskoleFolkeskole
English, Danish
Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
lib10
back-end-development10
css10
fakerjs10
flysystem10
faker10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
bootstrap9
javascript9
test-driven-design9
font-awesome9
bootstra9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
1up-lab/OneupUploaderBundle
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
This Symfony bundle provides a server implementation for handling single and multiple file uploads using either FineUploader, jQuery File Uploader, YUI3 Uploader, Uploadify, FancyUpload, MooUpload, Plupload or Dropzone. Features include chunked uploads, orphanages, Gaufrette and Flysystem support.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of a Symfony bundle for file uploads. Their commits involved modifying existing controllers, specifically to adapt to use the master request, demonstrating an understanding of the Symfony framework. They also added support for Flysystem, a filesystem abstraction library, enabling the bundle to work with different storage backends. Additionally, they made updates to ensure the code's compatibility with different versions of Symfony.
dropzonechunked-uploadsfilepondfile-uploaderuploader
fzaninotto/Faker
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR in 12 days
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of color-related functionalities within the Faker library. They added methods for generating hex, RGB color codes, and color names, as well as related unit tests. The user refactored the color methods into a dedicated provider and optimized the hex color generation for performance. These changes expanded the library's capabilities and ensured the quality of the new color generation methods through comprehensive testing.
factorytestingphpdummy-datafaker
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