Rob Harings is a Head of Development and hands-on software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable PHP and Laravel applications, from SaaS e-commerce platforms to CRM and tournament-management tools. He blends leadership and delivery—running development teams and his own consulting business—while still contributing deeply to codebases and open-source projects. Notably, he has been an active maintainer and prolific contributor to AREA 17’s Twill CMS and has fixed critical backend issues in Drupal Commerce, showing strength in both Laravel and Drupal ecosystems. Rob specializes in maintainable, internationalized systems and has a track record of shipping refactors, test improvements and feature work that improve long-term product health. Based in Limburg, Belgium, he also bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders to make AI and web solutions accessible. Always eager for new challenges, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with a pragmatic, code-first approach.
Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible. Chat with us on Discord at https://discord.gg/cnWk7EFv8R.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 releases, 123 reviews, 1346 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob's commits primarily focused on refactoring the codebase, updating the Twill CMS toolkit, and adding support for translatable strings within blocks. Their contributions include refactoring references, correcting replacements, and implementing features to support internationalization. These updates demonstrate an understanding of the Twill framework, PHP, and Laravel, suggesting a focus on backend development and CMS improvements.
Contributions:6 commits, 34 PRs, 46 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Drupal Commerce backend. Their contributions involved addressing crashes in the tax module, fixing schema and annotation issues related to tax types, and modifying permissions related to cart access. Additionally, the user made updates to the order and cart modules, as evidenced by file changes within those directories, and merging changes from the upstream repository.
commerce2-x
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