Oliver Matla
Software Developer, Owner at Lupinity Wildlife Photography
Greater Kassel Area Germany
Summary
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SeniorOliver Matla is a self-employed full-stack developer and owner of Lupinity Labs with eight years of professional experience delivering web and native mobile apps for international clients. He specializes in PHP 8.4 backends paired with modern front-end stacks (Nuxt.js, Vue 3/VILT/TALL) and native iOS/Android development in Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java, and routinely modernizes legacy codebases including uncommon languages like Perl. A pragmatic team player, he offers code rescue, disaster recovery and rapid backend interfaces using Filament, and integrates with teams via Git, CI (Jenkins), Slack and Zoom. He is an active contributor to notable open-source projects such as the Laravel framework, where he’s fixed bugs, improved performance and added features, demonstrating strong debugging and refactoring skills. Beyond software he brings creative breadth from wildlife photography and orchestral composition, reflecting a methodical yet inventive approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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php
top-5%
laravel
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Github Skills (22)
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
mysql9
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
testing8
swift6
fopen6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Oct 2017 - Aug 2022
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by addressing bugs, improving code performance, and enhancing the codebase. Their work includes fixing return types in view-related functions, optimizing string manipulation, and adding new features such as invisible modifiers for MySQL columns. Additionally, the user demonstrated proficiency in debugging and refactoring code to maintain code quality.
laravelphpframework
cybex-gmbh/laravel-query-tracer
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Stack Traces for Your Queries.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 5 PRs in 11 months
stacktrace
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