Stephan Schmitz
Unternehmensinhaber at eyecatchUp Webprogrammierung
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
🤩
RockstarStephan Schmitz is a seasoned web software entrepreneur and engineer with 14 years of experience building and running web businesses from Cologne. As founder and CTO of Deutscher Werbering/Nahklick.de and CEO of eyecatchUp, he designs and implements full-stack web applications spanning PHP, MySQL, HTML5, JavaScript, and server stacks like Apache/Nginx. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship—evident in open-source PHP projects for YouTube downloading and SEO metrics—with product-minded leadership for SMEs' cross-media marketing platforms. His contributions show attention to maintenance and robustness, fixing edge-case parsing, curl issues, and evolving APIs rather than just feature prototypes. Based in Germany, he balances entrepreneurial ownership with day-to-day coding, preferring pragmatic, long-lived solutions. An understated detail: he often tackles brittle integration points in third-party services to keep core products reliable.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
10,240reputation
4.1mreached
88answers
7questions
mysql
top-5%
google-maps
top-5%
curl
top-5%
regex
top-5%
javascript
top-5%
jquery
top-5%
Github Skills (36)
apim10
youtube-api10
youtube10
regular-expression10
php10
api10
mysql9
javascript9
lib9
json9
cross-domain9
cors9
jquery9
regex9
toggle9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eyecatchup/SEOstats
Jan 2012 - Jul 2016
SEOstats is a powerful open source PHP library to request a bunch of SEO relevant metrics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 10 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily focused on configuring and updating the SEOstats PHP library. They modified configuration files, setting boolean values for API usage, and updated the main class file to the latest version, v2.0.9. These changes involved incorporating new checksum APIs, methods, service URLs, and license information. Additionally, the user fixed curl-related issues in the library, ensuring proper functionality and data retrieval.
php-libraryseo
eyecatchup/php-yt_downloader
Apr 2012 - Apr 2016
PHP Class to download videos from YouTube.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to a PHP class designed for downloading videos from YouTube. Their work involved the initial implementation of the class, including setting up the necessary environment, parsing URLs, and fetching video information. They also focused on improving the functionality, by fixing typos, updating regular expressions to handle changes in YouTube's site structure, and adding an instant download method. The user's commits demonstrate their involvement in core logic development and maintenance of the project.
php-classyoutube
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.