Hello, I'm Gertjan 👋
I'm living in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and have two amazing kids 👨👧👦. Friends and family are very important to me, so spending time with them is one of my favorite things to do when work is done. But of course, I also need some "Me Time" and I mostly spend that by going bouldering at least once a week, watching Formula 1, and playing some Rocket League or racing games.
So now you know me a bit, I would like to tell you what kind of work I do right now.
I'm a full-stack developer working daily on making the SaaS product of 2Solar software better and more flexible. This means that I create new features but also maintain and enhance already build features and I do this with my colleagues. I find this an important part of the work I do, we always pair program when things are getting more complex or if somebody doesn't understand a part of the feature. I find this very helpful and saves a lot of time.
But what do I build? Well, I'm making REST API's but also normal request calls so that the web version of the product can store its data but also for the mobile app. Here are some of the features I build on my own or alongside my colleagues. Those features are custom forms, planning tools, external system connections.
Product Developer
2Solar software
May 2022 - Now · 2 years 7 months
I'm now focusing on refactoring to make it all more scaleable.
- Laravel
- AWS
- Tailwind
- VueJS
Lead Developer
Motivo
July 2021 - April 2022 · 10 months
My day to day work is maintaining an in-house CMS and working on websites, web-applications and webshops for the health sector. Doing this with tools like Laravel, Livewire, and Tailwind.
- Laravel 8
- TailwindCSS 2 & 3
- Laravel Horizon, Scout
- Vue 2 & 3
- Inertia
- Livewire
Product Developer
2Solar software
July 2018 - June 2021 · 3 years
My day to day work was maintaining and extending the existing features (legacy). Over the years I also rebuild some features like online forms, API's, and planning module. Next to that I made intergrations with external services of warehouse companies but also mail and SMS services.
- Laravel 7 & 8
- Components from Zend v1
- TailwindCSS 2
- Laravel Envoy, Passport
- Vue 2
- Livewire
Medior PHP / Laravel Developer
Into the Source
May 2015 – June 2018 · 3 years 2 months
I mainly focused on building a custom CMS for the websites and possible API connections with external systems/services. For this, I took advantage of everything Laravel offered from version 4.2 all the way to version 5.5. I also made APIs for the frontend team or between the core system and CMS of the customer. I also managed 2 other backend developers during my last year.
- Laravel 4.2 until 5.5
- Laravel Envoy
- Vue
❤️ Since 1990
