Robert Baelde
Ticketing at Fastlane - For Festivals
Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRobert Baelde is a business-minded software engineer and solutions architect with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, currently shaping ticketing solutions at Fastlane for Festivals. A Delft University of Technology graduate and former founder of Bitscan, he blends hands-on development with strategic leadership, having served as CTO and engineering manager across early-stage and growth companies. He has deep PHP event-sourcing expertise, contributing to the EventSauce library by improving event type mapping and robust JSON encoding for complex payloads—practical work that underpins reliable, auditable event-driven systems. Based in Zeist, he excels at closing the gap between product and engineering, turning complex refactors and scaling challenges into pragmatic, business-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Merletcollege CuijkMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
php10
event-sourcing10
testing10
serialization9
phpunit9
unit-test9
data-serialization9
json8
git6
homestead6
curl6
batchfile6
flot6
barchart6
guzzle6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EventSaucePHP/EventSauce
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
A pragmatic event sourcing library for PHP with a focus on developer experience.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 19 commits, 12 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on enhancing the event sourcing capabilities of the PHP library. They implemented array-based class name inflection, improving event type mapping. Further contributions included adding JSON encoding and decoding to ensure data integrity, particularly for handling objects within event payloads. The user also worked on consumption tests and added an example using a shopping cart to demonstrate and test the library's features.
event-sourcingphpcqrsdeveloper-experiencepragmatic
gosuperscript/zero-downtime-event-replays
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 50 commits, 17 PRs in 2 months
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