Rob Landers
Engineering Manager at FinDock
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Landers is an engineering manager based in Utrecht with over a decade of professional experience and a 25+ year mindset for building systems that must reliably work, from payment processing to high-throughput email. He combines hands-on back-end and front-end expertise—contributing to large open-source projects like Automattic’s Jetpack and Calypso and to performance-focused tooling such as frankenphp—while leading teams to deliver production-grade, maintainable systems. At Automattic he helped operate systems at scale (including an email framework sending over a billion messages a month) and built in-house A/B testing and GDPR automation that drove measurable revenue and data hygiene improvements. As a former military sergeant turned developer-founder, he brings operational discipline, pragmatic leadership, and an appetite for refactoring legacy code toward modern, performant solutions. Currently steering engineering at FinDock and running Wicked Monkey Software, he balances product-level strategy with deep technical contributions. Notably, his open-source work emphasizes test quality, caching, and robustness—small changes that materially improve reliability in widely used projects.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Capital UniversityBusiness, Business at East Carolina University
English, Russian, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
worker-process10
back-end-development10
testing10
wordpress10
typescript10
c1110
plugin10
phpunit10
c1710
php10
go10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
webextension10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
dunglas/frankenphp
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
🧟 The modern PHP app server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:239 reviews, 12 commits, 68 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the development of the `frankenphp` project, focusing on adding features and fixing bugs related to the PHP extension and core functionality. Their work included implementing support for `fastcgi_finish_request()`, handling connection aborts, and addressing memory leaks. They also made optimizations and refactored the codebase, improving the performance of the cgi-mode and handling environment variables.
php-appsapiserver-appphpmodern-php
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2016 - Oct 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 69 commits, 90 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the front-end codebase, focusing on the implementation of the experiment component. They added features such as the experiment component, loading variations, and default variations. They also updated the experiment component to correctly handle anonymous IDs and ensure the component always has an anonId. Furthermore, the user fixed tracks aliasing for the registration.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
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