Mathias Reker
Senior Full Stack Developer at Scratcher.io
Stenløse, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMathias Reker is a Senior Full Stack Developer based in Stenløse, Denmark, with nine years of industry experience and deep expertise in PHP (Symfony/Laravel), Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks like Svelte and Vue. He combines hands-on development with strong IT security knowledge and a focus on type-safe PHP and TypeScript code, making systems more robust and maintainable. Mathias actively contributes to prominent open-source projects—including php.net, Composer, PHP-Parser and PrestaShop—where his work improves code quality, testability, and modern PHP practices. Beyond application development he frequently handles DevOps tasks to streamline CI/CD and deployments, and he brings an engineer’s eye for clean, extensible architectures. Outside work he is a Home Assistant enthusiast focused on network architecture and hardware integration, reflecting a practical interest in interoperable, real-world systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 12, Computer Science, 12 at KEA - Københavns ErhvervsakademiSTX, Matematik og Fysik, STX, Matematik og Fysik at Borupgaard Gymnasium
English, Danish
Github Skills (25)
astm10
dependency-manager10
unit-testing10
parserator10
parser10
sendmail10
package-management10
ecommerce10
validators10
send-email10
testing10
software-quality10
refactor10
phpunit10
e-mail10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
PrestaShop/PrestaShop
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
PrestaShop is the universal open-source software platform to build your e-commerce solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 195 commits, 243 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mathias primarily focused on maintaining and improving the codebase by addressing code style issues, removing unnecessary annotations, and updating test files. Their contributions included refactoring code to combine consecutive isset calls, fixing test-related issues, and updating install-related PHP scripts. Furthermore, they updated a file to reflect modifications done in the project. These updates were focused on improving code quality.
cmsecommercecommerceopencartprestashop
php/web-php
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
The www.php.net site
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 11 commits, 27 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Mathias primarily contributed to the PHP-based backend of the `php/web-php` repository, focused on improving code quality and maintainability. Their commits addressed various issues, including code style violations like unnecessary `elseif` statements, missing newlines, and inconsistent parenthesis. They also refactored code to utilize more modern PHP constructs, such as the null coalescing operator and void return types. These changes collectively aimed at enhancing the codebase's readability and adherence to best practices.
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