Zan Baldwin
Symfony Developer at WeDevelop
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolZan Baldwin is a Symfony-focused backend engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating data-centric RESTful APIs and high-performance web applications. He combines deep PHP and Symfony expertise with practical skills in Linux, relational databases, containerisation and CI/CD, regularly tackling complex system debugging and infrastructure work. His recent roles include maintaining the PHP ecosystem’s package registry at Packagist and modernising legacy systems into GraphQL-backed platforms with dramatic performance gains. An active open-source contributor, Zan has improved Symfony documentation and fixed subtle database bugs in the Yii framework, reflecting attention to detail beyond code. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, system administration, and pragmatic architectural decisions that balance speed, reliability and compliance. Based in Maarssen, Netherlands, he pairs steady production experience with a curious habit of learning new languages—even if he jokes about being more proud of his PHP than his Rust.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of South WalesTewkesbury School
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Github Skills (26)
yii10
restructuredtext10
schema-design10
php-framework10
php10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
symfony10
database-schema10
symfony-ux10
schema10
documentation10
image9
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
symfony/symfony-docs
Jul 2016 - Feb 2021
The Symfony documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 36 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zan's contributions primarily involve updating and adding documentation to the Symfony documentation repository. They fixed indentation issues in the PropertyInfo component documentation and suggested changes to improve clarity. Additionally, the user added documentation related to the Argon2i password encoder and the Diversity Initiative within the project's contributing guidelines, alongside examples related to the voting logic. They also incorporated updates related to invokable factory services and Slack link for CARE team member.
symfonyphp
yiisoft/yii
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Yii PHP Framework 1.1.x
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zan primarily contributed to the Yii PHP Framework by addressing database-related issues and improving code quality. Their work included preventing SQL exceptions by adding a default value to a database column. They also updated the database schema component to allow passing columns names as an array and string. Furthermore, the user updated unit tests to check for incoming data types and fixed an error in the CDbSchema::createIndex() method by correctly pluralizing the third parameter to match correct data.
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