Peter Blaakmeer
Founder Owner at Tillid Media
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPeter Blaakmeer is a founder and hands-on CTO with 13 years of experience building and running Magento 2 e-commerce and configurator solutions from Groningen. He leads a 22-person agency, elgentos, and launches complementary ventures like Signalise and media projects under Tillid Media, combining product thinking with pragmatic engineering. A pragmatic programmer and active open-source contributor, he has improved core Magento modules and contributed bug fixes and deployment recipes to widely used projects such as Algolia’s Magento integration and Deployer. He excels at technical customization, product import pipelines and reliable deployment flows, often tackling edge cases in large product objects and CI/CD. Comfortable bridging client collaboration and deep backend work, he brings an uncommon blend of entrepreneurial drive and day-to-day coding discipline.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Business Administration Database modelling Innovation & Entrepreneurship Intercultural Communication Japanese Society, Bsc Business Administration Database modelling Innovation & Entrepreneurship Intercultural Communication Japanese Society at Aarhus UniversityBsc Business Administration Msc Business & ICT Business Administration and Management General, Bsc Business Administration Msc Business & ICT Business Administration and Management General at University of Groningen
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (22)
deploying10
algolia10
ecommerce10
ecommerce-application10
configuration-management10
magento10
cicd10
searching10
php10
commerce10
shopware10
mysql8
shell6
database6
email-templates6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
algolia/algoliasearch-magento-2
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Algolia Search integration for Magento 2 - compatible with versions from 2.3.x to 2.4.x
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 132 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the Algolia Magento 2 integration. They addressed issues related to fetching translated category names, setting correct image type IDs, and handling zero default prices. Furthermore, the user made updates to improve the handling of large product objects, line breaks, and indexer warnings. These contributions centered on improving the functionality and robustness of the Algolia search integration within the Magento 2 environment.
magento-2phpalgolia-searchmagento-algoliasearchmagento2
deployphp/deployer
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 14 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the project, particularly focusing on the Shopware 6 recipe. Their contributions included modifying the `shopware6.php` recipe to reflect production templates, adding and removing shared and writable directories, and incorporating tasks for plugin activation and migration. Furthermore, the user updated the Magento 2 recipe and made improvements for push strategy deployments. They also fixed maintenance mode status checks, added support for Slack notifications, and addressed issues related to file paths and CI/CD configurations.
continuous-deploymentboxdeploymentdeployphp
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