Sebastiaan Hilbers
Company Owner at Blue Lobster BV
Willemstad, Curacao Curaçao
Summary
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SeniorSebastiaan Hilbers is a seasoned full stack developer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building scalable web and e-commerce platforms across PHP ecosystems like Laravel, Symfony and Laminas. He has led migrations and high-traffic rewrites—most notably replacing a major Talpa e-commerce webshop with a Sylius headless solution served via Kubernetes and Kafka—and regularly combines backend craftsmanship with modern frontends in Vue and React. As a company owner and long-time freelancer he offers code review, optimization and DevOps know-how, having deployed microservices, Elasticsearch and containerized workloads for clients from startups to enterprises. Based in Willemstad, Curaçao (with extensive Netherlands experience), he brings an uncommon mix of hands-on implementation and system-level thinking that keeps projects maintainable at scale. Curious and forward-thinking, he frequently surfaces architectural improvements that reduce operational risk and speed up iteration.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (179)
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semantic10
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material-components9
ui-components9
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abstraction9
backend9
rest-api9
php-library9
restful-api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SyliusLabs/DoctrineMigrationsExtraBundle
Aug 2021 - Apr 2025
Adding a topological sorter and container injection to DoctrineMigrationsBundle.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 3 years 8 months
injectionphpsymfony-bundledoctrineinjection-container
bashilbers/domain
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year
dddevent-sourcingdomaineventsaggregatesbase-classes
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