Tobias Van Beek
Senior Developer at TJVB
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Van Beek is a Senior Developer with 11 years of experience building robust PHP back-ends, APIs and automation tooling, currently improving food safety QA systems at Normec. He combines hands-on technical design, deployment reliability and team mentorship with a freelance practice (TJVB) focused on PHP quality and code reviews. An active open-source contributor, Tobias has improved code quality and developer experience in well-known projects like PHPMD, PHP_Depend and PHP Insights by refactoring, adding tests and modernizing parsers and documentation. Based in Eindhoven, he brings practical expertise in maintainability and cyclomatic complexity tuning, plus a track record of leading volunteer building teams—evidence of his pragmatic leadership and commitment to impact beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at Info Support KenniscentrumHBO Information Technology, HBO Information Technology at Saxion University of Applied SciencesLeiderschap in Dienstbaarheid, Leiderschap in Dienstbaarheid at World ServantsZCE PHP, ZCE PHP at Zend Technologies Ltd2005 Havo, 2005 Havo at Carmel College Salland
English, Dutch
Github Skills (21)
static-analysis10
testing10
software-quality10
php-parser10
rule-engine10
php10
code-analysis10
source-code-analysis10
code-cleanup10
cleaner10
rule10
code-metrics10
documentation10
website-development9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
phpmd/phpmd
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:6 releases, 79 reviews, 139 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving the code quality and maintainability of the PHPMD project. Their contributions included removing global variables, adding docblocks for better code documentation, and fixing various rule-related issues, specifically around clean code and naming conventions. Furthermore, they contributed to the project's website by adding documentation for a new rule and updating the website's build process to fetch the latest PHAR file. This work demonstrates a focus on both code quality and developer experience.
streamaimsmetricsuser-friendlystatic-analysis
pdepend/pdepend
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
PHP_Depend is an adaptation of the established Java development tool JDepend. This tool shows you the quality of your design in terms of extensibility, reusability and maintainability.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 93 reviews, 128 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tobias contributed to the PHP_Depend project by addressing bugs, updating existing code, and enhancing the website documentation. Their work includes adding reserved words to the PHP parser and updating the parser for newer PHP versions. They also improved the website's usability by adding a Twitter follow link to the footer and modifying configuration files.
reusabilityjava-developmentmaintainabilityphpcode-quality
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