Martin Petersen
Software Engineer at Northlands
Vejle, Region of Southern Denmark
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMartin Petersen is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building web and mobile products, currently contributing at Northlands and volunteering in the SingleStore Ambassador Program. He has a strong track record of designing architecture and shipping end-to-end solutions—from APIs and databases to Android/iOS apps—across startups and his own ventures. Martin has taken on leadership roles (including Executive Director and co-founder) that combine hands-on development with product ownership and team mentorship. His open-source contributions include backend work in the highly visible Laravel framework, addressing exception handling and query builder security. Based in Vejle, Denmark, he pairs a disciplined, responsible work ethic with a collaborative, “work hard, be nice” approach that often sees him naturally stepping into management and stewardship roles.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
HTX, Kommunikation/IT, Engelsk, Samfundsfag, Secondary education (Gymnasiel uddannelse), HTX, Kommunikation/IT, Engelsk, Samfundsfag, Secondary education (Gymnasiel uddannelse) at Teknisk Gymnasium Sønderjylland HTX SønderborgDatamatiker, Computer Science, Datamatiker, Computer Science at Erhvervsakademi Århus
Danish, English
Github Skills (10)
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
exception-handling10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
sql-query9
symfony8
symfony-ux8
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily addressed exceptions within the Laravel framework's routing and exception handling mechanisms. Their commits demonstrate efforts to handle and mitigate `SuspiciousOperationException`, which suggests involvement in securing the application against potential vulnerabilities. The user also reverted a previous change related to exception handling and adjusted the propagation of exception messages. Furthermore, they contributed support for the "NOT RLIKE" SQL operator within the query builder.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
katoni/php-ffx
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 9 pushes in 8 months
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