Paul Kievits
Headcoach U11 at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Netherlands
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPaul Kievits is a pragmatic full-stack web developer with 12+ years building high-performance PHP applications and scalable systems, currently serving as Research Software Engineer at Rotterdam School of Management while also coaching youth football. He brings deep expertise in Laravel and Zend, strong database skills across MySQL, Oracle and Elasticsearch, and hands-on experience optimizing high-traffic multilingual sites with caching, queues and observability stacks. Comfortable across the front-end with HTML5/CSS3 and modern JavaScript (Vue, ES6) and familiar with Node, Python and Ruby, he thrives on solving research-driven and environmental domain problems. He contributes to open-source Laravel tooling—improving database configurability and migrations in the laravel-countries project—highlighting a focus on reliable data schemas. Colleagues rely on him to translate researcher requirements into practical technology choices, blending curiosity with a preference for challenge over routine work. Based in the Netherlands, he balances steady technical leadership with occasional freelance projects and a knack for operationalizing research software.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of ICT, Bachelor of ICT at Hogeschool Rotterdam
Github Skills (12)
database-migrations10
configuration-management10
php10
database-migration10
schema-design10
laravel10
schema10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
laravel-mix10
database-schema10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
webpatser/laravel-countries
Jan 2014 - Aug 2017
Laravel Countries is a bundle for Laravel, providing Almost ISO 3166_2, 3166_3, currency, Capital and more for all countries.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on modifying the application's database interaction and configuration. This involved adding the ability to configure the database table name and altering column types within the database schema. Furthermore, they worked on migrating code and configurations and also merged branches to integrate changes into the main codebase. This suggests a focus on database management and ensuring the Laravel application's functionality.
laravel-countriesisobundlephpiso-3166
paulkned/zicht
Dec 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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