Mike Van Riel
Solution Engineer Digital Twin at Kind Men
Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Van Riel is a seasoned solution engineer and software architect with 16 years of experience building web and Unity-based systems, currently focused on digital twin initiatives for Dutch provincial governments. He blends deep back-end PHP craftsmanship—evidenced by notable contributions to phpDocumentor, Composer/Packagist and type-resolution tooling—with hands-on Unity 3D and Azure deployments for geospatial visualization (Netherlands3D). As a former technical director and founder of an indie game studio, he pairs team leadership, mentoring and agile/product ownership with a pragmatic obsession for quality assurance and industry standards. His open-source work shows a consistent pattern of refactoring, improving developer ergonomics and adding practical features, not just flashy additions. Based in Zwolle, he has a track record of turning complex domain data into maintainable, testable systems and developer-friendly tooling.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBO Telematics, MBO Telematics at ROC Horizon College
English, Dutch
Github Skills (21)
type-resolution10
unit-testing10
type-check10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
php10
api10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
type-checking10
namespaces10
docblocks10
slim-framework10
composer10
phpunit9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor
Jun 2010 - Dec 2022
Documentation Generator for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 55 reviews, 3424 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the development of version 2 configuration support and the implementation of an upgrade mechanism. The commits involved modifying and creating files related to configuration, including `Version2.php`, `SymfonyConfigFactory.php`, and `Version3.php`, indicating a focus on the project's internal configuration system. The code changes also included adding tests for the new version 2 configuration definition.
pdfdocblockdocumentation-generatordocblocksphp
phpDocumentor/ReflectionDocBlock
Apr 2012 - Feb 2020
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 238 commits, 44 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `phpdocumentor/reflectiondocblock` repository. Their contributions included adding support for namespace expansion within DocBlocks and their tags. They made significant improvements to the type handling within the code, including the `@param` and `@return` tags, and correcting errors in the namespace resolution algorithm. The user also addressed issues related to multiline tag descriptions.
docblocks
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