Stephan Grootveld
Software Developer at TestMonitor | Cerios Solutions
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Grootveld is a pragmatic software developer with 13 years of experience building web applications and tooling, primarily in PHP (CakePHP, Symfony2) and Laravel, and with hands-on experience in Java, PL/SQL and search technologies like ElasticSearch. He combines day-to-day commercial development and system administration with a lifelong tinkering mindset—working on Arduino/electronics and maintaining a diverse portfolio of domains in his spare time. Stephan has shipped full-stack solutions, from custom PHP frameworks and Composer setups to CI pipelines (PHPCI), automated Vagrant/Puppet deployments and PHPUnit test suites, and has a track record of improving SEO and search functionality for production sites. Comfortable both refactoring legacy PrestaShop systems and building new Laravel features, he favors pragmatic reuse of proven components over reinventing the wheel. Based in Breda, Netherlands, he brings a mix of engineering discipline, operational ownership and curiosity-driven side projects that surface useful, real-world optimizations.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Handel & Commercie, Handel & Commercie at ROC MondriaanBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Hogeschool LeidenDe Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (84)
dump10
artisan10
sdk10
increment10
activecampaign10
auto-increment10
laravel9
api9
database-engine9
hierarchical-data9
php9
eloquent9
tree-structure9
nested-set9
tracks8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stefanius/photo-archiver
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 17 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years
stefanius/mars2022
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 100 PRs, 117 pushes in 8 months
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