Nico Stapelbroek is a pragmatic Chief Technology Officer and full‑stack engineer with 11 years of experience building web systems and simplifying complex problems. Based in Arnhem, he blends hands‑on backend work in Go, Python and Laravel/PHP with product ownership and consultancy for diverse clients through his developer‑for‑hire practice. He’s delivered production services at companies like HelloFresh and Jimdo and contributed notable open‑source fixes to projects such as Cachet and the Auth0 Laravel SDK, improving incident workflows and CI/test reliability. Focused on distributed computing and continuous improvement, Nico thrives in cultures that value ownership and candid feedback. Beyond leadership, he still enjoys coding core features and integrations himself, bringing a rare combination of strategic thinking and practical implementation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBO Niveau 3, MBO Niveau 3 at Graafschap College
Bachelors, Bachelors at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
Laravel SDK for Auth0 Authentication and Management APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 26 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nico primarily focused on back-end development within the Laravel-based Auth0 integration. Their contributions involved refactoring the service provider, the Auth0 service constructor, and session handling to leverage Laravel's dependency injection and session management features. They updated the code to align with the Auth0 SDK, ensuring backward compatibility and proper functioning with the latest versions. Additionally, the user implemented testing and CI tests to improve the reliability of the system.
🚦 Cachet, the open source, self-hosted status page system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:67 commits, 19 PRs, 36 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nico primarily contributed to enhancing the incident management features within the Cachet system. They implemented an overview page for incident updates, restored incident update functionalities, and modified the navigation flow to redirect to the incident updates page. Furthermore, the user implemented edit functionality for incident updates, including front-end integration for users to edit them. The user also integrated with the meta fields for seo description and titles.
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