Philo Hermans
Founder at Anystack
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilo Hermans is a founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience building SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and developer tools from Amsterdam. He co-founded and led Wonderkind as CTO, scaling the product and engineering team while helping the company grow revenues from €1M+ to over €8M within three years. Equally comfortable in backend and frontend work, Philo contributes to notable open-source Laravel projects—improving admin UI/UX, Livewire components and core framework behavior—demonstrating practical expertise in Laravel, Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind. He now runs Anystack and CodeBird, helping developers sell, license and distribute software while applying servant-leadership principles to build healthy, high-performing teams. Known for shipping pragmatic optimizations and thoughtful UX fixes, he pairs hands-on coding with product-minded infrastructure and automation experience. Unexpectedly, his background includes marketplace review work at Envato, giving him a keen eye for quality and security in third-party PHP packages.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Business Communicator Management, Master Business Communicator Management at Business NLP AcademyHBO Internetmarketing, HBO Internetmarketing at NCOI OpleidingenVMBO Economy, VMBO Economy at Minkema CollegeMBO Web Development, MBO Web Development at Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht
English, Dutch
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
command-line-interface10
databases10
livewire10
laravel10
php10
tailwindcss10
alpinejs10
command-line10
web-framework10
web-development10
database10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wire-elements/spotlight
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Livewire component that brings Spotlight/Alfred-like functionality to your Laravel application.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 9 reviews, 44 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Philo primarily contributed to the frontend of the `spotlight` Laravel package. They addressed styling issues, improved the README documentation, and added features like customizable shortcuts and the ability to conditionally register commands. The user also introduced an x-cloak directive to prevent flashing and refactored code to support dependency type searching. Their work focused on improving the user experience and expanding the package's functionality.
laravellivewirelivewire-components
wire-elements/modal
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
Livewire component that provides you with a modal that supports multiple child modals while maintaining state.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 12 reviews, 31 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Philo's primary contributions involved implementing and refining features within the Livewire modal component. Their work included adding configurable modal width, preventing modal closure on escape, and addressing a bug related to modal visibility. The user also contributed to merging pull requests that introduced enhancements like closing modals on click away and improved modal event handling. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate involvement in version updates and package improvements.
livewiremodalslaravellivewire-components
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