Sjors Ottjes
Team Lead (Backend) at Tratta
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSjors Ottjes is a Team Lead and full-stack Laravel developer with 9+ years of experience, primarily focused on backend systems, API integration, CI/CD and DevOps. He ships robust Laravel backends and often pairs them with interactive front-ends using Livewire, React or Vue, while emphasizing automated testing and reliability. An active contributor to the Laravel ecosystem, he has improved core components like Illuminate Database and Support and added testing and QA features to projects such as Laravel Dusk and the framework itself. He’s led small teams and freelance engagements, scaling from agency work to directing backend efforts at Tratta. Based in Groningen, he combines practical client-facing delivery with deeper framework-level contributions—showing a rare mix of production engineering and open-source stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School HAVO, High School HAVO at Zernike CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at HanzeMinor Chinese Language, Minor Chinese Language at Xiamen University
Dutch, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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15answers
3questions
phpunit
top-5%
Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
application-framework10
assertion10
webdriver10
query-builder10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
testing10
app-framework10
laravel10
phpunit10
php10
collections10
web-framework10
test-automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/dusk
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
Laravel Dusk provides simple end-to-end testing and browser automation.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 12 PRs, 7 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sjors primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the Laravel Dusk project. Their commits focused on adding and refining assertions to verify the behavior of buttons, specifically their enabled/disabled states. They updated tests to use more specific exception types and renamed assertions for consistency. Furthermore, they introduced and implemented new assertions for input fields and URL locations and implemented a feature that allows the user to save screenshots in a subdirectory.
end-to-end-testingend-to-endbrowsertestingpageobject
laravel/framework
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 80 commits, 79 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Sjors primarily contributed to the Laravel framework's testing infrastructure and core functionality. They implemented new testing methods for functionalities such as notifications and resource handling. Their work includes improvements to existing tests, fixing potential failures, and adding features to enhance the framework's testing capabilities. This work contributes to the framework's reliability and ease of use.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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