Mischa Smitten
Software & System Architect at Oefenweb.nl
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMischa Smitten is a Software & System Architect based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building and operating high‑availability, secure web platforms and server parks. He combines hands‑on full‑stack development with Linux systems engineering, leading teams and architecture/security boards to ensure scalability, quality assurance and operational excellence. Long‑standing involvement in open source—contributing bug fixes and core improvements to notable projects like CakePHP and maintenance/cleanups in swfobject—underscores his attention to robust backend logic and clean, maintainable frontend code. He’s fluent in infrastructure automation, monitoring and high‑availability design, and has run his own web development and consulting practice alongside in‑house roles. With an academic background bridging psychonomics and brain sciences, he brings a user‑centric, research‑informed perspective to system design and adaptive learning applications. Colleagues value him for mentoring developers to write well‑tested, documented code while keeping systems secure and resilient.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PHP Hilversum MeetupVWO, Natuur & Gezondheid, VWO, Natuur & Gezondheid at S.G. HuizermaatAmsterdamPHP, AmsterdamPHP at AmsterdamPHP MeetupCakeFest 2015: New York, USA
The CakePHP Conference
May 28th - May 31st, CakeFest 2015: New York, USA
The CakePHP Conference
May 28th - May 31st at CakeFest 2015MSc, Psychonomics, MSc, Psychonomics at University of AmsterdamThe Percona Live Open Source Database Conference
October 3th - 5th, The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference
October 3th - 5th at Percona Live Amsterdam 2016AnsibleFest London - June 22, 2017, AnsibleFest London - June 22, 2017 at AnsibleFest 2017VWO, VWO at S.G. Goois LyceumThe Percona Live Data Performance Conference
September 21st - 23th, The Percona Live Data Performance Conference
September 21st - 23th at Percona Live Amsterdam 2015DevOps AmsterdamMySQL User Group NL, MySQL User Group NL at MySQL User Group NLAnsible Benelux, Ansible Benelux at Ansible Benelux MeetupCakeFest 2016DigitalOcean Amsterdam, DigitalOcean Amsterdam at DigitalOcean Amsterdam CommunityHilversum-P2P-DevsCakeFest 2017Docker Randstad Meetup
Dutch, English
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cakephp
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Github Skills (21)
cakephp10
javascript10
code-standards10
php10
web-framework10
coding-style10
code-formatting10
validations9
validation9
orm9
psr-78
gnupg6
lamp6
mod-rewrite6
ansible6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
May 2013 - Aug 2020
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 55 commits, 21 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mischa primarily contributed to the CakePHP framework's core logic. Their commits involved fixing bugs related to output directories in the `ExtractTask`, standardizing the usage of `_stop()` across different console commands and tasks. They also made improvements to error handling and code consistency, and updated the Memcached and validation features of the framework.
cakephpphpmvc-frameworkpsr-7orm
swfobject/swfobject
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
An open source Javascript framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash (swf) files.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mischa primarily focused on code style consistency and readability improvements within the project's JavaScript files. They made changes to whitespace, replaced tabs with spaces, and refactored code to adhere to the established style guidelines. The user also addressed JSHint warnings and modified a comparison operator to be less strict. These changes contribute to cleaner, more maintainable code.
adobe-flashjavascript-framework
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