Niels Mokkenstorm
Co-Founder & Full-Stack Software Engineer at Riotbyte
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiels Mokkenstorm is a Co-Founder and full‑stack software engineer with a decade-plus of hands-on experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems for startups and enterprises. He blends practical engineering (TypeScript, GraphQL, React, Next.js, Nest.js, Rust, PHP/Laravel) with product-minded consulting, having taken ideas from prototype to production and coached teams through delivery. As a former CTO who scaled a 20-person engineering organization, he pairs technical roadmapping and hiring with day-to-day coding and architecture. He also contributes to prominent open-source projects like the Laravel framework, improving core mail and queue contracts—an indication of his attention to infrastructure reliability as well as developer experience. Based in North Brabant, Netherlands, Niels is known for translating business needs into maintainable systems and for mentoring engineers to grow alongside the products they build.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Leiden UniversityComputer Science & Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering at Delft University of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
queue9
queuing9
mailing9
e-mail9
testing8
reselect6
memoization6
react-redux6
redux6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 15 PRs, 47 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Niels's contributions primarily involve modifying the Laravel framework's core components. They focused on updating contracts, specifically utilizing the `Mailable` contract and the `QueueManager` contract within the `Worker`. The code changes also include refactoring code to improve code quality and update unit tests. These modifications directly impact the framework's mail functionality and queue management.
laravelphpframework
nmokkenstorm/nmokkenstorm
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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