Mathias Verraes
Chief Executive Officer, Founder at Domain-Driven Design Europe
Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMathias Verraes is a software architect, consultant, and founder with 19 years’ experience building strategy-led software organisations and products across Finance, Energy, Supply Chain, Automotive and E‑Commerce. As CEO of Aardling he has grown a profitable boutique consultancy and training marketplace, founded DDD Europe and Data Mesh Live, and regularly advises Fortune 500 clients on aligning environmental, organisational, product and business strategy with architecture. He’s a prolific teacher and keynote speaker who has trained ~1,400 practitioners, grown conferences to 1,300+ delegates, and co-authored "Design and Reality" on practical software design. A longtime blogger and open-source contributor (notably to the moneyphp/money library), he blends hands-on backend craftsmanship with systems thinking. Based in Kortrijk, Belgium, Mathias pairs a formal background in music composition with an autodidact’s path in software, and in his spare time applies improvisational theater skills to coaching and facilitation.
19 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Music, Master of Arts, Music at HOGENTKoninklijk Atheneum Kortrijk
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (9)
php10
monetary10
currency10
testing10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
phpunit8
data-structure8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
moneyphp/money
Mar 2011 - Nov 2015
PHP implementation of Fowler's Money pattern.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:122 commits, 22 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mathias primarily contributed to the backend logic of the PHP library, focusing on implementing and refining core money handling functionalities. Their contributions included fixing namespace issues, improving variable names, removing unnecessary keywords, and renaming currency classes for better code organization. They also added new features like string parsing, allocation functionality, and comparison methods to the Money class, indicating a focus on core library enhancements.
phpcurrency-convertercurrencycurrency-exchange-ratespattern
event-centric/EventCentric.Core
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:69 commits in 4 months
dddevent-sourcingphpcqrsevent-sourcing-and-cqrs
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