Mattias Michaux
Fullstack Engineer at Mollux
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarMattias Michaux is a seasoned fullstack engineer and entrepreneur based in Ghent with 12 years of experience building and leading web engineering teams. He founded and runs Mollux while driving product and engineering strategy in senior roles at Dropsolid and now contributes to GitLab, blending hands-on development with team leadership. His open-source work includes substantive backend contributions to well-known projects like Mautic and CiviCRM, where he focused on bug fixes, database improvements and compatibility enhancements. Comfortable across PHP backend, DevOps and product architecture, he repeatedly moves legacy systems forward through careful refactors and pragmatic migrations. Colleagues know him for balancing technical depth with operational sense—improving tooling and tests as much as features. He brings an entrepreneurial mindset to scaling reliable, maintainable digital experiences.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
mautic10
drupal10
debug10
php10
drush10
backend10
back-end-development10
mysql10
bugtracking10
testing9
develop9
database-administration9
open-source9
api8
phpunit8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
civicrm/civicrm-drupal
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
CiviCRM (Drupal Integration)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Mattias primarily focused on improving the functionality of Drush commands for the CiviCRM Drupal integration. Their contributions include fixing compatibility issues with different Drush versions, adding new options for database installation, and improving the handling of database configurations. They refactored code, updated database connection methods to use mysqli, and refined the overall structure of the Drush commands.
phpdrupalcivicrm
mautic/mautic
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:152 reviews, 70 commits, 188 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mattias primarily contributed to the Mautic marketing automation software by fixing bugs and addressing deprecation warnings. Their contributions involved modifications to backend PHP files, specifically related to variable naming, default theme updates, and database interactions. They also worked on test-related code, making updates to testing classes.
marketing-automationmauticphpautomationsoftware-automation
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