Menno Holtkamp
CTO at Weev
Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMenno Holtkamp is a seasoned CTO and technology strategist with 14+ years turning abstract business goals into production-grade Internet solutions across healthcare, education, government, finance and e-commerce. He combines domain-driven design, requirements engineering and enterprise architecture to align business and IT roadmaps while leading product development for Shopforce’s sector-focused e-commerce platform. Hands-on in both back-end and front-end engineering, Menno contributes to notable PHP open-source projects (Doctrine, Zend, PHP-DI) and has improved caching, ORM export, and localization features—demonstrating a knack for pragmatic refactors and test-driven enhancements. He blends research-origin innovation (Weev/Shopforce spinoff) with day-to-day delivery as a founder/CTO and former TNO innovator, making him comfortable with both long-term R&D and rapid commercial rollout. Based in Overijssel, Netherlands, he pairs a Master’s in Business Information Technology with a rare mix of architectural thinking and low-level code craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business Information Technology, Master's degree, Business Information Technology at Universiteit TwenteVWO, VWO at Alexander Hegius Lyceum
English, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch
Stackoverflow
19reputation
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Github Skills (48)
unit-testing10
cron10
caching10
javascript10
jquery10
psr-1110
testing10
css10
doctrine10
zend-framework10
internationalization10
mongodb-database10
php10
localization10
doctrine-orm10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
longbill/jquery-date-range-picker
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
A jQuery plugin that allows user to select a date range
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 110 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Menno contributed to the jQuery date range picker plugin by implementing localization features, adding support for Dutch and Bulgarian languages. They also added support for the display of time in single date mode, and fixed an issue with time setting on 'mousemove' events. Their work involved modifying the CSS and JavaScript code to enhance the plugin's internationalization and user interface.
jquery-plugin
dragonmantank/cron-expression
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
CRON for PHP: Calculate the next or previous run date and determine if a CRON expression is due
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Menno primarily focused on improving the codebase of a PHP-based cron expression library. Their contributions included introducing the `FieldFactoryInterface` to improve code structure and using the null coalescing operator for cleaner code. The user also merged branch changes and fixed CI issues. Overall, the user's work centered on refactoring and maintenance tasks within the library.
croncron-expressionphp
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