Ralph Slooten
Technical Lead at Techno Joy
Greater Napier-Hastings Area New Zealand
Summary
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RockstarRalph Slooten is a Technical Lead and seasoned full-stack developer with 14 years’ experience building and supporting PHP/Silverstripe applications, backend services in Go, and Linux-based infrastructure. He runs his own web consultancy, leading custom Silverstripe integrations, hosting and support, while also guiding development at Springtimesoft Consulting. Ralph contributes to notable open-source projects—helping improve the Silverstripe framework’s core behavior and enhancing the Mailpit email-testing tool—showing a knack for pragmatic fixes that improve compatibility, URL handling and developer-facing APIs. His background in system administration and database engineering means he bridges dev and ops responsibilities, owning deployments and production reliability as comfortably as feature work. Based in the Napier-Hastings area of New Zealand, he combines entrepreneurial client-facing experience with steady contributions to widely used developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
English, Dutch
Github Skills (18)
application-framework10
debug10
apidoc10
app-framework10
php10
go10
api10
golang10
web-framework10
rest-api10
javascript9
authentication9
user-authentication9
mvc9
sqlite9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
axllent/mailpit
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
An email and SMTP testing tool with API for developers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 releases, 3 reviews, 334 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ralph's commits primarily focus on enhancements to the Mailpit email testing tool. The contributions include adding new features such as unread statistics, improving the search functionality, and implementing basic authentication. They also made several code changes, including database interactions with the Clover database and modifications to the API endpoints, indicating backend development focus.
golangmailemail-testingsmtptesting
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
Jul 2013 - Apr 2019
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 34 comments in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ralph primarily focused on enhancing the Silverstripe Framework's functionality and addressing various issues. Their contributions included fixing compatibility issues in the CMS related to IE 9/10, improving IP detection, and correcting meta tag generation. They also implemented changes to the URL generation and the handling of HTML tags for consistent output. These fixes point to active contributions to the framework's core features.
cmsphppowersframeworksilverstripe
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