Thijs De Paepe
Senior Consultant at PHPro
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs De Paepe is a Senior Consultant and PHP specialist with 11 years of experience building and improving web applications, particularly in retail-facing projects and CMS platforms. Based in Ghent, he combines hands-on backend work with Symfony components (notably contributing bug fixes to the popular Fork CMS) and practical retail IT experience from roles managing IT/photo departments and technical support. He excels at bridging product, sales and technical teams—having led sales teams, managed hardware procurement, and improved workflows in both retail and print environments. Passionate about web design and performance tooling like Varnish, he brings an uncommon mix of creative art-school roots and rigorous backend engineering to deliver pragmatic, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Art, Art History, Art, Art History at Sint-Lukas Brussel
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
cms10
debug10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
doctrine9
front-end-development8
mysql7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
forkcms/forkcms
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Fork is an easy to use open source CMS using Symfony Components.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 9 PRs, 77 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Thijs primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the `forkcms/forkcms` repository, a CMS built with Symfony components. Their work focused on resolving issues related to hidden 500 pages and other functional improvements within the frontend core engine. These changes involved modifying PHP files, specifically `Page.php` and `Model.php`, to enhance the CMS's behavior and ensure correct page rendering and data handling. Additionally, they made improvements to the locale handling.
cmsphpsymfony-bundleforkcmsfork-cms
induxx/parsable-file-multi-tool
Jun 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:65 releases, 20 reviews, 121 PRs in 4 years 10 months
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