Stephen Beirlaen
Software Engineer at Teamleader
Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Beirlaen is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years’ experience building scalable, back-end PHP applications—primarily on lightweight Symfony-based frameworks—now contributing at Teamleader. He focuses on robustness and maintainability, applying OOP, SOLID, DDD tactical patterns, defensive programming and static analysis, and is a strong advocate for CI/CD-driven automation using GitLab pipelines and Ansible. Comfortable with Docker on Linux, he optimizes performance and integration through RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch and prioritizes security practices such as CVE checking, OAuth2/OpenID and mTLS. A collaborative mob-programming enthusiast, he favors written documentation for knowledge transfer and has hands-on experience connecting to external systems across the stack. Based in Waregem, Belgium, he combines a disciplined engineering mindset with a keen interest in DevOps and repeatable delivery to reduce human error and improve release consistency.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in de multimedia en communicatietechologie, New Media & Communication Technology, Grote onderscheiding, Bachelor in de multimedia en communicatietechologie, New Media & Communication Technology, Grote onderscheiding at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome HogeschoolIndustriële Wetenschappen, Industriële Wetenschappen at VTI Waregem
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (200)
python10
automation10
symfony-form10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
api10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
home-automation10
iot10
tasks10
privacy10
raspberry-pi10
ios-framework9
laravel9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
StephenBeirlaen/SuluCommentBundle
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Sulu comment bundle
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
sulubundlephp
StephenBeirlaen/compose-pimcore
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
Docker compose environment for Pimcore
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
pimcoredocker-composedockercompose
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