Mathias Grimm
Technical Support Engineer at SISARTE
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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RockstarMathias Grimm is a pragmatic Technical Support Engineer and founder with over 19 years in tech and more than a decade building production web applications since 2005. He specializes in PHP and the Laravel ecosystem—designing everything from MVPs to scalable, queue-driven systems using Horizon, Vapor, Redis and SQS—while also shipping Vue.js/Livewire frontends and Tailwind-styled UIs. Comfortable across DevOps and cloud, he provisions Linux production servers with Ansible/Forge, architects AWS deployments (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, S3) and tunes MySQL/Postgres for high performance. A remote-first professional who has worked across Brazil, Ireland and Germany, he is timezone-flexible (PST–CET) and thrives in small teams where wearing multiple hats accelerates product delivery. He founded a B2B SaaS for image processing at scale and contributes to core open-source Laravel repos, having improved framework string handling, DB session behavior and queue job uniqueness—work that surfaces in widely used, production-grade code. This blend of startup grit, deep Laravel expertise and hands-on ops makes him adept at turning ambitious ideas into reliable, ship-ready software.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (11)
testing10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
database9
queue9
queuing9
databases9
web-framework8
app-framework8
git4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Jan 2015 - Feb 2025
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 12 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mathias's contributions primarily revolved around improving the Laravel framework's functionality and addressing existing issues. They worked on refactoring the `Str` class's `trim`, `ltrim`, and `rtrim` methods and added tests to ensure correctness. They also contributed to database-related features, including modifying the database session driver and creating missing PostgreSQL databases during migration. Furthermore, the user made changes to support a more effective queuing system with unique job handling.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
phpEmpregos/phpEmpregos.com
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:26 PRs, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
php
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