Pim Jansen
Software Architect at Topicus
Geleen, Limburg, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPim Jansen is a Software Architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering backend-focused web applications, now driving architecture at Topicus after five years in a similar role at Senet. He brings deep PHP expertise and hands-on leadership from roles as Lead Developer and architect, consistently moving projects from code to production. An active maintainer on notable open-source projects like FakerPHP, he has improved core library functionality and contributed features such as a color extension, reflecting attention to API quality and internationalization. Based in Geleen, Netherlands, he combines pragmatic engineering with team coaching to solve complex business workflows across sectors including education and telecom. Outside standard roles he has entrepreneurial experience co-running the Hardstyle Top 40 music project, showing an ability to blend technical delivery with product and community building.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBO, IT Beheer, MBO, IT Beheer at Gilde Opleindingen
English, Dutch
Github Skills (6)
php10
lib10
api-design9
uuid9
unit-testing8
color-theory8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
FakerPHP/Faker
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 329 reviews, 8 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pim contributed to the FakerPHP project by addressing bug fixes and implementing new features. Specifically, they corrected an issue related to locale usage, adding a missing return type, and deprecated an existing method. They also added new features to the project, including a color extension. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the core functionality and API of the library.
testingphpfakerphp-libraryfake-data
fearfm/website
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Public website
Contributions:4 reviews, 13 commits, 57 PRs in 4 months
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