Sander Dekkers
Chief Technology Officer at Port-IT B.V.
Rhoon, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSander Dekkers is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 8 years of focused experience scaling maritime cybersecurity and web software at Port-IT in the Netherlands. He rose through engineering ranks at the same company, blending hands-on development, field support, and product stewardship to harden systems used in operational port environments. Sander contributes to open-source backend tooling—improving autoscaling and test coverage in the popular Laravel Horizon project—reflecting a focus on reliable queueing and resilient infrastructure. Based in Rhoon, he pairs practical MBO-level IT operations training with a penchant for turning real-world operational challenges into robust, test-driven solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MBO3, Medewerker Beheer ICT, MBO3, Medewerker Beheer ICT at Radius CollegeVMBO-t, Nederlands, Engels, Scheikunde, Economie, Wiskunde, Natuurkunde, VMBO-t, Nederlands, Engels, Scheikunde, Economie, Wiskunde, Natuurkunde at Mollerlyceum
Dutch, English
Github Skills (9)
autoscaling10
php10
laravel10
queuing10
queue10
laravel-mix10
phpunit10
refactor9
refactoring9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/horizon
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Dashboard and code-driven configuration for Laravel queues.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Sander primarily focused on improving the auto-scaling functionality of the Laravel Horizon queue dashboard. Their contributions included fixing a bug related to worker allocation, adding tests to verify the behavior of the autoscaler with empty and busy queues. They also refactored the code, updating the implementation of worker scaling logic and removing unnecessary ternary statements.
queuesphpscheduled-tasksbeanstalklaravel-queues
SDekkers/telegram-bot-sdk
Sep 2019 - Oct 2023
🤖 Telegram Bot API PHP SDK. Lets you build Telegram Bots easily! Supports Laravel out of the box.
Contributions:6 releases, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 1 month
apitelegram-botboxtelegram-botsphp
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