Walter Tamboer
Senior Developer at Shareforce
Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarWalter Tamboer is a senior developer with 14 years of professional experience and a 15-year personal passion for building software, currently crafting solutions at Shareforce from Vlaardingen. Language-agnostic but C-family–inclined, he brings a pragmatic, defensive approach to engineering and a game-development-honed creativity for precise delivery. His career spans lead and senior roles across game studios and software firms, and a long history of open-source volunteering where he improved cross-platform test reliability in high-profile projects like Zend Framework. Comfortable giving and receiving candid feedback, he pairs strong technical judgment with clear communication and team collaboration. Notably, he treats languages as tools rather than identities, favoring robust, maintainable solutions over language dogma.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German, French, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
zend-framework10
cross-platform10
phpunit10
testing10
test-automation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Jul 2012 - Jan 2015
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:65 commits, 5 comments, 2 issues in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Walter primarily focused on fixing unit tests within the Zend Framework codebase. Their contributions involved modifying tests to ensure they passed consistently across different operating systems, particularly Windows. They addressed issues related to end-of-line characters and file path discrepancies, impacting tests for various components such as view helpers, and the sitemap helper. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability and cross-platform compatibility of the testing suite.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
polderknowledge/coding-standards
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
The Polder Knowledge coding standards for PHP_CodeSniffer.
Contributions:10 releases, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years
knowledgephpstandardsphp-codesniffercodesniffer
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