Wilfried Röper
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolWilfried Röper is a technical founder and CTO with over 17 years of hands-on experience building and scaling digital products end-to-end, and more than 25 years of software development expertise overall. He co-founded and led elvah from idea to exit when the e-mobility platform was acquired by E.ON in 2023, and earlier designed and shipped the UEFA Champions League app from its first line of code into one of Europe’s leading sports apps. Comfortable balancing product, business and technology, he has led large distributed teams and coordinated ~80 external developers for major events like UEFA EURO 2016. An active open-source contributor, his PHP work spans prominent projects including Firebase integrations, CodeIgniter, and Spatie libraries—demonstrating deep backend and API design skills plus commitment to code quality and standards. Based in Hamburg, he brings a pragmatic, craft-focused approach and a French name with a German accent.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at University of Hamburg
English, German
Stackoverflow
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php
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firebase-realtime-database
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firebase
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firebase-authentication
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Github Skills (39)
cms10
firebase-authentication10
psr-1210
mysql10
laravel-mix10
testing10
laravel10
httpc10
guzzle10
phpunit10
http-client10
php10
firestore10
httplib10
firebase-db10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
kreait/laravel-firebase
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 10 reviews, 88 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Wilfried significantly contributed to the `kreait/laravel-firebase` package, primarily by adding support for various Firebase services within a Laravel environment. Their work includes implementing facades for core Firebase functionalities (Auth, Database, Messaging, Storage, RemoteConfig, Firestore), as well as adding features like dynamic links support. Furthermore, the user updated the package to support caching of authentication tokens and included configuration options for logging and debugging HTTP requests.
firebase-remote-configfirebase-phpfirebase-databasefirebase-functionsfirebase-db
kreait/firebase-php
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Unofficial Firebase Admin SDK for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:220 releases, 31 reviews, 1364 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wilfried primarily contributed to the PHP-based Firebase Admin SDK for PHP project. Their commits show a focus on code style improvements through PHP CS Fixes and the modification of code by applying and implementing the PSR-12 code style. The user also made changes involving property type declarations and explicit return types, along with other minor code optimizations.
firebase-remote-configfirebase-databasegoogle-firebasefirebase-functionsfirebase-db
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