Wouter Sioen
Software Engineer at madewithlove
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolWouter Sioen is a seasoned software engineer from Ghent with 14 years of experience modernizing legacy PHP codebases and guiding teams toward maintainable, test-driven development. He currently helps start- and scale-ups at madewithlove by refactoring, introducing best practices, and stabilizing projects that need external rescue. As an open-source maintainer of Fork CMS he brought namespaces, standardized autoloading, and Symfony components into the codebase, demonstrating a strong blend of pragmatic engineering and architectural improvement. Previously a lead developer, he introduced automated testing and CI at his teams, and a year of travel sharpened his interpersonal adaptability across cultures and teams. Practical, hands-on, and improvement-focused, he excels at turning messy projects into sustainable engineering platforms.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Grafische en digitale media, Bachelor, Grafische en digitale media at ArteveldehogeschoolBachelor's degree, design and graphic arts technology, Bachelor's degree, design and graphic arts technology at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
uuid10
api10
unit-testing-framework10
symfony10
unit-testing10
searching10
php10
packagist10
cms10
phpunit10
teamleader10
symfony-bundle10
graph10
guid10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sumocoders/Simple-Application-Framework
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 6 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 8 months
tinyframeworkdeveloping
WouterSioen/moduleMaker
Apr 2014 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 91 commits, 4 PRs in 8 years 6 months
cmsphpfork-cmsforks
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