Thomas Verstraete
Web Developer at ddm marketing & communications
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Verstraete is a pragmatic web developer with 11 years of experience building and improving custom web applications, integrations, and developer workflows from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He blends backend PHP/Laravel expertise with front-end skills in Vue, JavaScript, and modern tooling like Livewire and Inertia, and has transitioned multiple projects from legacy in-house CMSs to external frameworks. Thomas has led and merged developer teams, hiring and mentoring engineers while still shipping features and remediating security issues, reflecting a hands-on leadership style. He also maintains mobile experience by updating an Objective-C iOS app with Swift components and keeps thorough documentation to make teams more efficient. Outside of work he ran a near-miss municipal campaign—designing the site, collateral, and knocking on doors—showing a readiness to apply technical and creative skills to community-facing challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
Github Skills (2)
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package-control6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Bwata/LazyTimeTracker
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:18 commits in 2 months
thomasv-teamddm/statamic-pdf-thumbnailer
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
A Statamic addon to automatically generate a thumbnail per uploaded PDF asset
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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