Roelof Elsinga
Freelance Back-end Developer at Plant care for Beginners
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRoelof Elsinga is a pragmatic freelance back-end developer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in Go and pragmatic PHP where needed. He builds production-grade, event-driven systems, APIs and long-running processes designed to tolerate messy data, flaky integrations, and unexpected traffic patterns. Roelof favors "boring" but correct and observable code—prioritizing maintainability and practical reliability over clever abstractions. His background includes leading engineering at Tubber, building e-commerce microservices at Afosto, and architecting a psychology-driven CRO platform (CRO-tool), which was acquired in 2025. Based in Groningen, he balances hands-on system ownership with automation and observability practices, and he brings an operator’s mindset to design choices informed by years of production firefighting. Outside engineering he runs a plant-care community, blending technical skills with a knack for teaching practical, repeatable processes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Abroad, Computer Science, Semester Abroad, Computer Science at Hope CollegeWillem Lodewijk GymnasiumAmerican High School Diploma, American High School Diploma at Comanche High SchoolHigh School Diploma, Economics & Management, High School Diploma, Economics & Management at Augustinus CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Interactive Media & Technologies, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Interactive Media & Technologies at Hanze
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (191)
projection10
graphiql10
web-performance10
javascript10
laravel10
codegen10
graphql-tools10
artemis10
angular10
aggregate10
typescript10
nodejs10
dataloader10
php10
web-framework10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
afosto/cli
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Official CLI tool for Afosto
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
cli-toolcli
roelofjan-elsinga/laravel-onesky
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
Use artisan commands and OneSky to keep track of your translations
Contributions:2 releases, 13 pushes, 4 tags in 3 years
artisankeeponeskytranslationstranslation
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