Mathieu De Ruiter
Developer at Torto Portal
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorMathieu De Ruiter is a seasoned developer with over 15 years of professional experience and a 25-year passion for building real-time games and high-traffic web applications. At Vormkracht10 he focuses on backend systems with Laravel, Filament and React, supporting sites that handle tens of millions of requests per month. He founded multiple ventures—including Couchfriends and Spark of Chaos—shipping browser multiplayer games and commercial titles on Steam using Unreal Engine, C++ and Blueprints. Mathieu also designed a custom Node.js API enabling cross-device real-time multiplayer via WebRTC and WebSockets, and contributes to CakePHP improvements around routing and URL generation. Comfortable wearing both developer and designer hats, he runs solo consultancies and product efforts that span architecture, QA and operations. Based in Nijmegen, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic focus on reliable, real-time systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
router10
php10
cakephp10
mvc10
routers10
testing10
html6
css6
gyroscope6
javascript6
iphone6
device-orientation6
validations4
validation4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
May 2015 - Jan 2016
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu focused on refining the CakePHP framework's routing and URL generation functionality. They addressed an issue with base path handling, removing double base paths and implementing tests to ensure accurate URL generation, including the base path. Additionally, they performed code cleanup by removing empty spaces and improved the code markup for API documentation.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
Casmo/Naxasius-Game-Engine
Dec 2010 - May 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 3 years 5 months
gamebrowsergame-developmentgame-enginemmorpg
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