Ruud Denivel
Symfony Expert Software Architect at Take The Lead
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolRuud Denivel is a Symfony expert and software architect with 13 years of full-stack web development experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at Take The Lead while running his freelance studio Devolution. Trained in Communication & Multimedia Design, he combines a designer’s attention to detail with deep PHP/Symfony, LAMP/LNMP and devops fluency, favoring clean, test-driven, MVC-based code. He has driven CMS-level features and media integrations at Kunstmaan and contributed back to PHP tooling by adding PHPMD support to the popular GrumPHP code-quality project. Comfortable both leading projects and digging into backend implementations, he regularly architects solutions, mentors teams, and collaborates closely with clients. Daily exploration of new technologies keeps his toolset fresh, and his background in multimedia gives him a strong sense for user-focused implementations.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Communicatie & Multimedia Design, Bachelor, Communicatie & Multimedia Design at Katholieke Hogeschool LimburgVia
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (5)
cms10
php10
software-quality10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Kunstmaan/KunstmaanBundlesCMS
Feb 2014 - Sep 2020
An advanced yet user-friendly content management system, based on the full stack Symfony framework combined with a whole host of community bundles. It provides a full featured, multi-language CMS system with an innovative page and form assembling process, versioning, workflow, translation and media managers and much more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 1 review, 389 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ruud implemented a new remote audio handler for Soundcloud within the Kunstmaan MediaBundle. This involved creating a new class, `RemoteAudioHandler`, to handle audio from Soundcloud. The user also added a new form type and helper class to support the new audio handler. These additions enhance the CMS's media handling capabilities by enabling the embedding of audio content from external sources.
cmscontent-management-systemfull-stacksymfonyversioning
phpro/grumphp
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
A PHP code-quality tool
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ruud focused on adding and modifying the `phpmd` task within the GrumPHP code-quality tool. Their contributions included integrating the PHPMD static analysis tool, developing the `PhpMd` task class, and writing tests for this new task. They also made minor documentation updates. This work focused on enhancing the project's code quality capabilities by integrating a PHP code analysis tool.
phpcode-qualitygit-hookscomposer-plugin
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