Ruud Schaaphuizen
Oprichter & CEO at Sqits
Zoetermeer, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRuud Schaaphuizen is a Dutch founder and CEO with 11+ years building bespoke web and mobile software that helps businesses digitize processes and scale without growing complexity. As founder of Sqits and earlier Quando, he combines hands-on development with product-minded leadership to lower process costs and improve service quality for clients. He champions the Laravel ecosystem locally as Secretary of the Dutch Laravel Foundation, reflecting a strong commitment to pragmatic PHP best practices. Ruud’s background ranges from lead developer roles at agencies to running end-to-end projects, so he equally understands engineering, delivery and client-facing product decisions. Based in Zoetermeer, he markets “software zonder zorgen” — emphasizing reliable, maintainable solutions rather than flashy prototypes. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained focus on turning operational workflows into measurable efficiency gains through tailored automation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
VMBO-T, VMBO-T at Scala CollegeMBO Application Development, MBO Application Development at ROC Leiden
English
Github Skills (19)
laravel-package8
eloquent8
laravel7
php7
voyager7
mustache4
blueprint4
translation4
localization4
api3
symfony-bundle3
symfony3
renderer3
bundle3
skeleton3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sqits/laravel-userstamps
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Package to maintain the users who created, updated and deleted eloquent models
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 4 months
voyagerphpupdateddeletedeloquent-models
sqits/laravel-api-skeleton
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
This Laravel package creates an artisan command to generate an api skeleton.
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
apiartisanskeletonphplaravel-package
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