Peter Van Der Wal
Software Architect at Youwe
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPeter Van Der Wal is a Software Architect based in Groningen with six years of professional experience and a longer history of hands-on engineering across PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. He led backend redesigns, built a custom ORM and deployment pipelines at Almexx, and now architects solutions at Youwe, emphasizing clean code and performance-driven improvements. An active contributor to the Pimcore core platform, he has fixed import, encoding and caching issues that improved real-world data and document handling in a widely used open-source DXP. Comfortable across servers, CI/CD and front-end optimizations, he brings pragmatic system-level thinking and a habit of turning messy legacy systems into maintainable, testable platforms.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Geneeskunde, Technische Geneeskunde at Universiteit Twente / Twente UniversityTechnische Informatica, Technische Informatica at Universiteit TwenteSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at NOH-I
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Github Skills (24)
cms10
debug10
javascript10
back-end-development10
language-agnostic10
regex10
php10
linebreak10
pimcore10
mysql9
jquery9
front-end-development9
html9
database-management8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pimcore/pimcore
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Core Framework for the Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 7 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Pimcore platform. Their contributions included fixing CSV import issues, updating path properties in relation fields, and addressing issues related to document navigation and caching. The user also worked on fixing encoding problems in link editables and ensuring correct counts in grouped queries, demonstrating a broad understanding of the system. They also improved a core feature related to document translation.
cmsdata-experienceecommerceshopwaredxp
youwe-petervanderwal/esb
Oct 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 9 months
ponylangesbjavascriptframeworkesb-framework
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