Raymond Schouten is a seasoned web developer and owner with over nine years of professional experience building bespoke PHP frameworks, CMSs, e-mail marketing tools and high-traffic web applications. He has led small development teams, introduced CI/CD and OTAP workflows, and overseen release management, risk analysis and time estimations for complex projects. Raymond’s hands-on background spans high-availability architectures using PHP, Perl/Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch, and he maintains production-grade hosting and backup systems through his DarkWeb Hosting business. He combines entrepreneurial grit—running his own development and hosting ventures since the 1990s—with enterprise-grade security and performance expertise from his work in healthcare EPD systems. Notably, he developed his own lightweight Chronos PHP framework to rapidly deliver custom solutions and optimize traffic-heavy sites. Based in Zeist, Netherlands, he brings pragmatic engineering, operational ownership and long-term product stewardship to any web development team.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur, Hogere informatica, Ingenieur, Hogere informatica at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
VWO, Natuur en Techniek + Management & Organisatie, VWO, Natuur en Techniek + Management & Organisatie at Jan van Egmond College, Purmerend
Contributions:10 releases, 51 PRs, 36 pushes in 6 years
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