Thijs Wenker
Programmer at Mystores.nl BV
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Wenker is a programmer based in Amsterdam with 12 years of hands-on experience in object-oriented development, particularly C# and PHP/Zend. He currently develops production applications at Mystores.nl BV and brings practical expertise in application design, build systems, and dependency management. Thijs contributes to open-source projects such as the Vircadia metaverse core (focusing on CMake/VCPKG and library linking) and the Zend Framework (test automation and bug fixes), showing both DevOps and QA strengths. His work often targets reliability and reproducible builds, reducing CI output size and fixing tricky linking and decompression edge cases. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving and a “True belieVR” curiosity that surfaces in metaverse and tooling improvements.
12 years of coding experience
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (14)
testing10
zend-framework10
php10
cmake10
build-automation10
cicd10
phpunit10
linux9
file-handling9
compression9
open-source8
meta7
virtual-reality7
3d6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vircadia/vircadia-native-core
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Vircadia open source agent-based metaverse ecosystem.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:62 commits, 23 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Thijs's commits primarily focused on build system and dependency management within the Vircadia metaverse ecosystem. They addressed issues with library linking, specifically fixing the linking of the Opus library in CMake. The contributions also included updates and fixes related to the VCPKG build system, modifying build types and dependencies to improve build process and output size for continuous integration. Moreover, the user worked on updating and fixing links related to external dependencies.
realitygamevirtual-realityathenametaverse
zendframework/zendframework
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Thijs primarily contributed to the testing aspects of the Zend Framework project. They added a new test case, `testDecompressWhenNoArchieveSetInClass()`, and modified existing tests in `ZipTest.php`. The commits also included fixing a decompression issue in `Zip.php` where a valid parameter was not handled correctly. Furthermore, there were efforts to clean up code by removing trailing spaces.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
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