Sjoerd Van Der Vis
Solution Engineer Benelux at Samsara
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSjoerd Van Der Vis is a Solution Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience bridging customer needs and technical delivery across web and mobile platforms. Currently leading pre- and post-sales engineering for Samsara in the Benelux, he excels at translating feature requests into practical solutions informed by a deep background in Android, iOS (Swift/Objective-C), PHP, Symfony, Drupal and SQL databases. His developer roots include significant backend contributions to the Open Social Drupal project, where he improved social features and notification logic to reduce redundancies—demonstrating attention to user experience and maintainable code. Based in Enschede, he combines commercial sensibility from early retail roles with a systematic engineering education from Saxion and practical experience building location-aware mobile apps and custom Laravel/WordPress web systems. Colleagues rely on him to balance product thinking with pragmatic implementation, especially when complex integrations or customer-facing demos are at stake.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Medicine, Technical Medicine at University of TwenteComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German, French
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Github Skills (14)
drupal10
php10
back-end-development10
database-design9
html8
twig8
social-networking7
mysql7
net7
social-media6
co6
distributions6
css5
javascript5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
goalgorilla/open_social
Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
Open Social install profile for Drupal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 138 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sjoerd primarily contributes to the back-end of the Drupal-based project. Their work includes fixing bugs related to static function calls, improving email descriptions, and altering the follow content notifications to prevent redundant notifications. Additionally, they address issues related to datepicker and date fields and the handling of the administration menu and group functionalities. Their commits demonstrate a good understanding of the project's structure and specific modules like social features, social landing page, and the group functionalities.
social-networkdrupal-profilesocialphpdrupal
sjoerdvandervis/xdripswift
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
xdrip for iOS, written in Swift
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
xdripswiftios
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