Remco Smits
Back-end Developer at Pay.
Papendrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRemco Smits is a pragmatic back-end developer from Papendrecht with six years of professional experience building web services and tooling, currently employed at Pay. He began programming at 12 and channels that long-running curiosity into building custom frameworks, packages and experimenting with new languages—PHP is his base and Rust is a recent interest. Remco contributes to notable open-source projects such as the high-performance Zed editor, where he improved real-time chat visibility and reply features, showing attention to UX even in back-end-focused roles. A hands-on learner who prefers building over theory, he routinely dives into existing codebases to optimize and refactor for clarity and performance.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Middelbare School, MVI, Middelbare School, MVI at Griendencollege SliedrechtMBO, APPLICATIE- EN MEDIAONTWIKKELAAR, Programmeren, MBO, APPLICATIE- EN MEDIAONTWIKKELAAR, Programmeren at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
Github Skills (7)
rust10
gpu10
text-editor10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
php9
uid9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zed-industries/zed
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 68 PRs, 270 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Remco contributed to the `zed-industries/zed` repository, a high-performance code editor. They implemented features related to improving the user interface, such as adding a background color to chat messages that mention the user, which enhances visibility during fast-paced chat interactions. They also added the ability to reply to messages, improving the chat functionality. Further, they focused on code editor improvements.
code-editormultiplayertree-sittertext-editorzed
RemcoSmitsDev/backend-framework
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Lightweight PHP Framework. Includes fast and secure Database QueryBuilder, Advanced Routing with dynamic routes(middleware, grouping, prefix)
Contributions:53 releases, 22 PRs, 246 pushes in 9 months
databasephp-frameworkquery-builder
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