Oliver Nybroe
Senior Software Engineer at Laravel
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolOliver Nybroe is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend development, APIs, and PHP, now contributing to Laravel's Core Services and Forge. He builds reliable, well-tested systems and developer tooling that automate tedious processes, and has practical experience with GraphQL, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud deployments from roles at Worksome and Unity. An active open-source maintainer, he has contributed meaningful improvements to high-profile projects like Laravel and Pest (including GraphQL support in nuwave/lighthouse and CI integrations). He excels at translating complex problems into clear, team-backed solutions and often bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders. Based in Copenhagen, he brings a habit of continuous learning and a pragmatic focus on documentation and testability that improves long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Student, Communication and IT, Student, Communication and IT at HTX VibenhusNanodegree, Computer Software Engineering, Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering at UdacityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
English, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
application-framework10
translation10
validations10
console10
laravel-mix10
testing10
app-framework10
validation10
software-quality10
laravel10
wpgraphql10
phpunit10
console-application10
php10
localization10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
nunomaduro/phpinsights
May 2019 - Apr 2020
🔰 Instant PHP quality checks from your console
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 12 reviews, 40 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the project by fixing code-quality issues and refactoring existing code. Their work focused on improving the presentation of output in the console by adding padding and fixing errors related to inline variables. They also made changes to the codebase that added features to the default exclude folders and added support for Laravel attribute setters.
analyticscomplexityconsolestylephp
nuwave/lighthouse
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
A framework for serving GraphQL from Laravel
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 64 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the development of the `nuwave/lighthouse` repository, a framework for serving GraphQL from Laravel. Their work included refactoring the pagination implementation to use "relay" types, updating tests to accommodate these changes, and adding support for filter queries. Furthermore, they added the `@scout` directive to facilitate searching within the application. The user also refactored code to improve maintainability and performance.
servinglighthouse-phpphplaravel-graphqllighthouse
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