Niels Keurentjes
Managing Director at Omines Internetbureau B.V.
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarNiels Keurentjes is a veteran software leader and founder with roots in programming since 1984, who today combines hands-on architecture and development with executive leadership as Managing Director of Omines. He has steered projects for major clients like NXP, TSMC and Philips and built Omines to bridge marketing-focused web agencies and classical software houses, emphasizing user experience, performance and security. Technically fluent across decades of platforms—from Amiga assembler and C/C++ to modern web stacks and PHP tooling—he remains an active contributor to open-source projects including Composer and a Redis bundle for Symfony. Known for pragmatic, future-proof choices and a refusal to cling to failing patterns, he prioritizes delivering working solutions that solve real business problems without creating new ones. Based in Eindhoven, he pairs deep technical craft with business acumen and a track record of turning hobbyist passion into reliable, enterprise-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, Latin, German, French, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
dependency-management10
javascript10
package-management10
redis10
testing10
css10
htaccess10
predis10
php10
mod-rewrite10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
html10
error-handling10
composer10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
snc/SncRedisBundle
Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
A Redis bundle for Symfony supporting Predis and PhpRedis
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 35 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Niels primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Redis bundle, focusing on compatibility with different versions of the PHP Redis extension and Predis. They addressed issues related to logging and test suite configurations, adapting to changes in the PhpRedis extension, specifically version 4.0.0 and above. These contributions involved modifying configuration files, test cases, and the core bundle code to ensure compatibility and maintainability. Further contributions included extending the test suite, and fixing existing tests.
phpredisredisbundlephpsymfony-bundle
composer/composer
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Dependency Manager for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 91 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Niels contributed significantly to the `composer/composer` repository, a dependency manager for PHP. Their work involved implementing a silencer utility to handle error suppression, which was then used in various core files like `ConfigCommand.php`, `LibraryInstaller.php`, and `Application.php`. They also made changes related to path repository globbing and ensuring correct URL normalization across platforms. Further contributions include fixes related to handling exceptions in a more robust way.
phppackage-managerdependency-managerpackagescomposer
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