Youri Westerman
Senior Software Development Engineer at City of Amsterdam
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
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Top SchoolYouri Westerman is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and leading teams across public and private sectors, currently delivering software for the City of Amsterdam. He has progressed from C/C++ and multimedia-focused development into senior PHP and full-stack backend roles, including leadership as Head of Development and Development Team Leader. A practical contributor to the Sylius open-source eCommerce framework, he’s improved documentation, configuration and core subtotal logic—showing care for maintainability and backward compatibility. Based in the Arnhem-Nijmegen region, he combines hands-on engineering with product-minded team leadership and a track record of modernizing legacy codebases and architecting pragmatic solutions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (12)
php10
twig10
ecommerce10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
documentation9
api8
shopware8
webshop8
shopify8
restful-api7
sylius6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Sylius/Sylius
Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
Open Source eCommerce Framework on Symfony
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 64 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Youri primarily contributed to the Sylius e-commerce framework by modifying code related to documentation, database configuration, and twig templates. Their commits show enhancements to the model customization guide and the addition of tips and tricks. They also refactored code related to subtotal calculations, separating the logic from a twig extension and adding deprecation notices for backwards compatibility.
apisyliusecommercephpheadless-ecommerce
flathub/io.qt.QtCreator
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 123 commits, 69 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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