Pascal Baljet
Senior Software Engineer at Laravel
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPascal Baljet is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of hands-on experience building Laravel-powered back-ends and interactive Blade-driven SPAs. As owner of Protone Media and a contributor at Laravel, he authors popular Laravel packages like Inertia UI and Laravel FFmpeg, and has made notable contributions to the core laravel/framework. He blends backend expertise (search, media processing, conditional input handling) with full‑stack component work—improving developer ergonomics in Splade and form component libraries. Pascal’s work often modernizes legacy ecosystems (PHP-FFMpeg upgrades, PHP 8.1 support) and adds practical features such as HLS playlist generation and relevance-ranked cross-model search. Comfortable shipping libraries and products, he combines entrepreneurial ownership with open-source stewardship that influences how Laravel apps are built.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de KunstenPre-university education (VWO) – Science and Technology profile, Pre-university education (VWO) – Science and Technology profile at Zaanlands Lyceum
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Github Skills (41)
algorithm10
algorithms10
video-encoding10
http-streaming10
bootstrap10
laravel-mix10
testing10
razor-components10
web-components10
http-live-streaming10
livewire10
ffmpeg10
laravel10
forms10
request-handler10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
protonemedia/laravel-ffmpeg
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
This package provides an integration with FFmpeg for Laravel. Laravel's Filesystem handles the storage of the files.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:73 releases, 279 commits, 123 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily contributed to the `laravel-ffmpeg` package, focusing on core functionality related to video and audio processing. Their work included implementing methods for saving and exporting media, integrating features for HLS stream and playlist generation, and adding support for filters and watermarks. Furthermore, the user addressed bug fixes and refactored components for improved performance and usability.
laravel-sflysystemphp-ffmpegphphls-stream
protonemedia/laravel-splade
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
💫 The magic of Inertia.js with the simplicity of Blade 💫 - Splade provides a super easy way to build Single Page Applications (SPA) using standard Laravel Blade templates, and sparkle it to make it interactive. All without ever leaving Blade.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:126 releases, 428 commits, 240 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pascal contributed to the development of the Laravel Splade package, primarily focused on building Single Page Applications (SPA) with Laravel Blade templates. Their work involved fixing styling issues, implementing new features like form submission with added submit button with form method, and incorporating the ability for a link component to make non-GET requests. The user also made improvements to various components, including Defer, Table and Dropdown, and addressing different pagination styles.
single-page-applicationslaravel-vuemagicblade-template-enginesingle-page
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