Thom Hurks
Web Developer at Coosto
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolThom Hurks is a multidisciplinary web developer and data-minded engineer with 11 years of professional experience, blending full-stack development at Coosto with a Master’s pursuit in Computer Science & Engineering at TU/e. He started in open-source game projects and commercial game studios, evolving into a role that combines Python-based data science, statistics, and internal tooling—covering data modelling, server and client code, UX, notifications and logging. Thom contributes to well-known open-source projects like Laravel and vee-validate, improving back-end authentication flows and form validation stability. Comfortable moving between game programming, computational geometry and production web systems, he brings both practical product experience and growing theoretical rigor in mathematics and machine learning. Notably, his background spans hands-on QA and retail customer interaction, giving him an uncommon blend of attention to quality and user-focused thinking.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyBachelor of ICT, Software Engineering and Game Design & Technology, Bachelor of ICT, Software Engineering and Game Design & Technology at Fontys University of Applied SciencesVWO (highest level), VWO (highest level) at Dr. Knippenberg College
English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
vee-validate10
back-end-development10
validators10
laravel-mix10
user-authentication10
authentication10
laravel10
php10
vue10
form-validation10
error-handling10
testing9
middleware9
web-framework8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
logaretm/vee-validate
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
✅ Painless Vue forms
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 44 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thom primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `errorBag.js` file. This included in-place modification of the `errorBag` to fix a specific issue and ensuring consistent use of arithmetic operators. They also contributed to bug fixes and improvements related to the DOM validity and validation logic by modifying the `validator.js` and `vee-validate.js` files. These changes aimed to improve the stability and efficiency of the validation process.
vee-validatevue3validationvue-datepickervalidation-library
laravel/framework
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 23 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thom contributed to the Laravel framework by implementing and modifying back-end features. Their work focused on the authentication and email verification functionalities, including adding events for email verification and adjusting the behavior of email verification middleware for API routes. They also resolved feedback and applied style fixes to ensure code quality and adherence to coding standards. This user demonstrates proficiency in Laravel's core authentication and middleware components.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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