Rick Bakker
Developer at Vimexx B.V.
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Bakker is a pragmatic developer and entrepreneur based in Groningen with 11 years of hands-on experience building PHP-driven web hosting tooling and customer-facing platforms. He currently develops and manages systems at Vimexx while co-founding and running RTM Networks and his own Bakker IT, blending operational sysadmin skills with backend PHP development. His open-source contributions to Sentora demonstrate practical expertise in maintaining and extending a PHP hosting control panel—adding features, template enhancements, and improved database access. Comfortable in support roles and leadership positions alike, he pairs customer-focused experience from Vimexx support with formal ICT studies at Hanzehogeschool. An interesting thread across his career is sustained work on hosting infrastructure and tooling, showing both deep technical focus and a knack for shipping incremental, production-safe improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelorgraad, HBO-ICT, Bachelorgraad, HBO-ICT at Hanzehogeschool GroningenBachelor in onderwijs, Early Childhood Education and Teaching, Bachelor in onderwijs, Early Childhood Education and Teaching at NHL Stenden HogeschoolVWO, VWO at CSG Augustinus
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (13)
php10
control-panel10
hosting10
mysql9
database-design7
linux7
app-framework6
web-framework6
application-framework6
automation6
automations6
ubuntu5
git4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sentora/sentora-core
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Sentora is a web hosting control panel written in PHP for *NIX
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Rick primarily focused on back-end modifications, specifically within the PHP-based web hosting control panel. Their contributions involved correcting a title typo, modifying existing PHP files to include new features such as making FTP accounts start with username_. Additionally, they integrated custom icons for the services and mailboxes modules within the template files. The user also updated the database access methods.
nixphpsentorawebhostingcontrol-panel
RickBakkr/SOMtoday
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
PHP wrapper for SomToday api
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 2 months
php
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