Wouter De Jong
DevOps Engineer Scrummaster at MyWheels
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Wouter De Jong is a DevOps engineer and Scrum Master with 14 years of experience building and operating production-grade Symfony platforms and developer tooling. He has led the migration from managed VPS to Kubernetes, implemented centralized observability with the Elastic Stack and Sentry, and shaped security, performance and failover strategies for high‑availability services used by tens of thousands of users. Equally comfortable in code and process, he’s driven CI/CD, automated infrastructure (Ansible, Terraform, Helm) and reorganized teams into autonomous scrum units while serving as interim product owner. A long‑time Symfony core and docs contributor, his open‑source work spans critical components like DependencyInjection, Form and Security—showing a knack for refactoring, deprecation cleanup and test-driven stability. His background in architecture and technical writing helps him translate complex operational needs into clear, maintainable systems and documentation.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Architectural Urban Design and Planning, Master of Science - MS, Architectural Urban Design and Planning at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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url-routing10
cms10
authorizations10
restructuredtext10
behat10
testing10
command-line-interface10
authentication10
phpunit10
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sonata10
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Github contributions (5)
symfony-cmf/symfony-cmf-docs
Nov 2012 - Jun 2020
The documentation for the symfony content management framework
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Front-end Developer
Technical Writer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:428 commits, 39 PRs, 66 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily focused on improving the documentation of the Symfony CMF project. They corrected indentation issues and fixed formatting errors within the documentation. The user also made revisions to list formatting, added interlinking and removed commas to enhance the clarity and readability of the documentation. Their work involved making changes to both front-end documentation files, suggesting experience with either front-end technologies or the use of documentation within a front-end project.
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symfony/security-http
Jul 2014 - Jun 2022
Symfony Security Component - HTTP Integration
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Wouter's commits primarily involve modifications to the Symfony Security Component's HTTP integration. They focused on refactoring and renaming code related to security tokens, remember me functionality, and authentication entry points. The contributions also include moving and refactoring interfaces related to authentication and adding a login throttling feature, indicating a focus on improving security and usability within the Symfony framework. Furthermore, the user implemented a new authenticator for JSON-based login.
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