Reinier Kip
Co-Founder at automagical.work
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolReinier Kip is a web-focused software engineer and serial founder with over 14 years of professional experience and 17 years of hands-on practice in building reliable web systems. Based in Hamar, Norway, he blends systems architecture and DevOps expertise—having designed federated identity, licensing and billing integrations at Seequent and operated distributed AWS services—with pragmatic full-stack delivery at bol.com and other companies. He co-founded multiple startups and shipping-focused products, from a Chrome shopping extension to monday.com productivity tooling, showing a bias for building customer-facing solutions. An active open-source contributor, Reinier improved PHP image processing in the widely used Imagine library by hardening animated GIF handling and adding multi-layer image support with thorough tests, reflecting his attention to compatibility and test automation. Colleagues know him for reducing operational toil, improving observability, and safely refactoring legacy systems into maintainable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Computer Science, Bachelor of IT, Computer Science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Dutch, English, Finnish, German
Github Skills (8)
imagick10
unit-testing10
php10
image-processing10
phpunit10
test-automation9
lib8
api-documentation7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
php-imagine/Imagine
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
PHP Object Oriented image manipulation library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Reinier primarily contributed to the Imagine image manipulation library by implementing and testing image processing features. They focused on improving the handling of animated GIFs by coalescing images and ensuring consistent frame sizes, which indicates a focus on image format compatibility. They also refactored code related to saving multi-layered images, including the implementation of tests to validate functionality, demonstrating a solid understanding of the library's core functions and testing methodologies. The user also worked to improve the image processing capabilities, introducing new functionality, and fixing existing issues.
manipulationmanipulation-libraryimageimage-manipulationphp
rjkip/2021-resident-visa-data
Mar 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:102 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
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