Bob Fanger
Frontend Developer at This.nl
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBob Fanger is a frontend developer with 16 years of experience building web applications from PHP backends to modern Svelte-based UIs, now working at This.nl in Amsterdam. He has a strong history of practical full-stack work—earlier roles include senior PHP and .NET development—and a recent focus on front-end engineering and developer tooling. An active open-source contributor, Bob has improved core features in the popular Svelte and SvelteKit projects, tackling routing, prerendering and animation edge cases. He combines meticulous bug-fixing and test-driven enhancements with a pragmatic understanding of API tooling from his work on a PHP Swagger parser. Colleagues value his steady craftsmanship across legacy systems and cutting-edge front-end frameworks.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B-ICT, Information Engineering, B-ICT, Information Engineering at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (43)
git10
javascript10
web-application10
annotations10
ui-design10
prerendering10
prerender10
annotation-processing10
uid10
api-documentation10
php10
front-end-development10
gitbash10
svelte10
apache9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zircote/swagger-php
Mar 2013 - Dec 2021
A php swagger annotation and parsing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 4 reviews, 300 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bob implemented core functionality for a PHP-based annotation and parsing library. They developed the Swagger\scan() function and added support for parsing various annotations, including those for documenting APIs. The commits reveal a focus on parsing PHP code, processing doc-comments, and extracting relevant information for building API documentation. The changes directly impacted the library's ability to parse and generate API specifications from code annotations.
parsingphpswagger
sveltejs/kit
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
web development, streamlined
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the SvelteKit framework, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements related to front-end functionality. Their work included resolving issues with route handling, particularly with the `<Route>` component, and improving the prerendering capabilities of the framework. They also addressed problems related to URL crawling and image tag handling within the prerendering process.
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