Daniël Brekelmans

• Consulted as technical advisor on the procurement of ticketing and planning software for their new Experience Center: Portlantis (Port of Rotterdam)
• Integrated with a newly developed system for managing parts, labour and service packages for car dealerships, built by the Volkswagen Group. This included launching a pilot with Dutch car dealerships, as the first in the world to connect to this system (Syntec-IT)
• Managed and contributed to the upgrade of legacy codebase to modern standards, to allow for continued development of this aging but critical system, which handles millions of euros in payment transactions (Factua)

• Led a team of 17 software engineers, including three technical leads
• Introduced feedback cycles, 1-on-1s and a competency framework to the team to facilitate personal growth and career development
• Introduced milestone documents to create a shared understanding of work between different stakeholders
• Mentored technical leads on the day-to-day challenges of leading a team
• Bridged the gap between business (clients & executives) and engineering
• Jumped in as temporary technical lead for projects that required support

Typescript, React-native, React, GraphQL, NestJS, Next.js, TailwindCSS, Nativewind, Jest, Supabase, Vercel, PHP, PHPUnit, PHPStan, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, CI

• Simultaneously led two product development teams with a total of nine team members for two separate clients
• Managed all priorities, deliveries and communications in one product team in the absence of a product manager
• Delivered automated testing talks and workshops to upskill the team
• Became proficient with Typescript and NestJS within the first month without prior experience in either
• Built and released native mobile app for Dutch sports influencer Joel Beukers

Typescript, React-native, React, GraphQL, NestJS, Next.js, TailwindCSS, Nativewind, Jest, Supabase, Vercel, PHP, PHPUnit, PHPStan, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, CI

• Led a team of six software engineers in day-to-day product development
• Co-led the full team of 14 software engineers in software architecture, systems design, automated testing and DevOps
• Contributed to the movement of the company’s traditional view on software to a more product oriented view
• Upgraded business-critical legacy PHP5.2 application with custom autoloader to modern PHP8.0 symfony application

PHP, PHPUnit, PHPStan, Symfony, Twig, Docker, CI, MySQL

• Displayed fastest growth and became a top performer on the team within my first year
• Initiated and championed the rollout of automated static analysis tools to improve the code quality of the team
• Reduced the synchronization time from end-user applications to COBOL back-office from 24 hours to <1 minute

PHP, PHPUnit, PHPStan, Symfony, Twig, Docker, CI, MySQL

• Delivered technical support for three clients simultaneously
• Contributed to introducing strong communication habits in client-facing teams
• Initiated and championed the introduction of automated testing and continuous integration

Magento, Drupal, Wordpress, Docker, CI, Zendesk, MySQL

• Launched six new storefronts in one month (part-time) without prior Magento knowledge
• Automated importing and formatting product information for thousands of products from an undocumented XML API

Magento, Github, MySQL

• Built 3D-like trading cards with react-native-skia
• Working from concept to prototype without any outside help

React-native, Typescript, Expo, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Nativewind

• Built a working proof-of-concept, tested in the real-world with alpha testing group
• Looked into Expo Modules API to expose Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor for precise phone-to-phone location
• Supported Sign in with Apple for native authentication
• Learned basic UI/UX design principles and figma

React-native, Typescript, Expo, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Figma, Nativewind

• 93 github stars, 140 thousand installs per month, 2.8 million installs in total (link)
• Recommended in official symfony/panther documentation (link)
• Includes composer-installable zero-dependency PHAR companion (link)

• 2.4 thousand github stars, 1.6 million installs per month, 57 million installs in total (link)
• Championed the release of version 2.0 (link)
• Upgraded support from PHP 7.x to 8.x (link)

• Fully documented the new ErrorHandler component introduced in symfony 5.0 (link)
• Made email attachments in the profiler downloadable for easy debugging (link)