Sander D
Eigenaar at Elevate365
West Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolSander D is a versatile IT professional and entrepreneur from West Flanders with 12 years of experience blending hands-on systems support, back-end development, and creative pursuits as a working DJ. He founded Elevate365 and previously ran IT support ventures, delivering first- and second-line support, ERP/POS assistance, and practical IT documentation across retail and service environments. A self-described "security nerd," he contributes to open-source finance software (improving IBAN and transaction validation in Firefly III), showing strong back-end PHP and validation expertise. Trained across programming, PC repair, IoT and industrial design, he pairs technical troubleshooting with a designer’s eye and practical teaching experience. Notably, he balances technical depth with creative work in music, bringing a unique mix of discipline, client-facing communication, and problem-solving to IT and security challenges.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial and Product Design at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome HogeschoolBachelor’s Degree, Carpentry/Carpenter, Bachelor’s Degree, Carpentry/Carpenter at Vti menenBachelor’s Degree, Analyst - Programmer (Evening School), Bachelor’s Degree, Analyst - Programmer (Evening School) at Syntra WestTomorrowland AcademyBachelor's degree, IoT Solutions using RaspBerry - Pi Arduino for Developers, Bachelor's degree, IoT Solutions using RaspBerry - Pi Arduino for Developers at SBM
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (17)
validations10
finance10
accounting10
validation10
php10
api-design9
restful-api9
debug9
api-rest9
debugging9
rest-api9
database8
database-administration8
databases8
admin8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firefly-iii/firefly-iii
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
Firefly III: a personal finances manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily focused on improving the Firefly III application's back-end functionality. Their contributions included extending IBAN validation, enhancing transaction validation, and addressing issues related to account reconciliation and balances. The user also addressed bugs and implemented new version updates, and added debug logging. The code changes involved modifications to PHP files related to validation, controllers, and core application logic, indicating a strong focus on back-end development and the application's core financial features.
cashflowfirefly-iiiiiifinancesfinance
SDx3/sanderdorigo.nl
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
De website van Sander Dorigo
Contributions:170 commits, 4 PRs, 427 pushes in 1 year
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