Patrick Van Kouteren
Owner Developer at WeDesignIt
Oude-Tonge, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Van Kouteren is an experienced web developer and owner of WeDesignIt with 14 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP-based web applications and systems. He specializes in debugging, performance tuning and re-architecting large-scale projects for national and international clients, often taking projects from messy legacy code to stable, test-covered deployments. A persistent learner, he contributes to open-source PHP projects like the Bolt CMS—adding features such as NiceUrls and RSS feeds and improving search and template stability—which reflects a knack for practical backend improvements. His background spans system architecture, order-processing automation, and cloud interfaces, including work on OpenStack Swift and VPS GUIs, showing comfort across infrastructure and application layers. Trained in computer science and bioinformatics, he combines rigorous technical foundations with a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to shipping reliable web systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Utrecht UniversityMSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
Github Skills (7)
cms10
php10
bolt10
twig10
symfony9
symfony-ux9
mysql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bolt/bolt
Nov 2012 - Sep 2013
Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:114 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the Bolt CMS's backend functionality, addressing a fatal Twig runtime error by defining a necessary variable. They fixed a typo in dependency declarations within the extension files. The user added the "NiceUrls" extension, and also made several merges from the upstream master branch. Furthermore the user added RSS feed functionality, including the addition of an RSS feed template, and also made several refactorings to improve search functionality.
cmsboltmysqltwigphp
WeDesignIt/dropshiphub-php-api-client
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
PHP API client for the Dropshiphub API (https://dropshiphub.nl)
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years
apidropshiphubdropshippingdropshipping-automationphp
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