Thomas Spiessens is a seasoned senior web developer and founder with over a decade of experience building PHP-driven e-commerce and conversion-focused platforms. He runs AllCaps, an online community and marketplace for champagne capsule collectors, combining his passion for niche hobbies with pragmatic product design and automation. Technical strengths include OOP, backend optimization, and form-heavy admin interfaces—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the popular laravel-admin project where he improved validation, form types, nested forms, filters, and query performance. Based in Oudenaarde, Belgium, he blends agency and in-house experience across long-term web roles, making him adept at shipping maintainable systems under real-world constraints. Colleagues value his focus on conversion and automated processes that turn tedious workflows into reliable, scalable features.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
multimedia, multimedia at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
Build a full-featured administrative interface in ten minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:30 commits, 51 PRs, 60 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Laravel Admin framework. Their work involved enhancing form validation rules, adding support for various form field types (e.g., date ranges, sliders, checkboxes), and improving nested form handling. Furthermore, the user refactored code related to filter functionality, and optimized database queries for improved performance.
Build a full-featured administrative interface in ten minutes
Contributions:50 pushes, 66 branches, 6 tags in 2 years 9 months
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Thomas Spiessens - Founder Developer ... at AllCaps