Dennis Smink
Mede-eigenaar at Ploi Cloud
Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Smink is a driven full‑stack web developer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience, co‑owning Ploi Cloud and founding Ploi.io while maintaining hands‑on involvement in product development. A Laravel enthusiast, he contributes to prominent open‑source projects like FilamentPHP and Laravel Horizon, focusing on UI/UX improvements, localization, and bug fixes that improve admin tooling and queue dashboards. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he pairs practical server and API expertise with frontend work in Vue, React and TypeScript, and has extended integrations such as a Raycast Ploi extension. Beyond software, Dennis serves as a fire brigade commander, bringing disciplined leadership and crisis‑management skills to engineering and operations. His background running ServerBuilds and automotive technical roles underscores a pragmatic, systems‑oriented approach to building reliable web platforms.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
IFV Bevelvoerders opleidingLeusdenManschap A, Manschap A at IFV - Klasse BrandwachtArnhem
German, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (40)
apim10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
css10
typescript10
livewire10
ui-design10
laravel10
uid10
php10
localization10
api10
front-end-development10
vue10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/horizon
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Dashboard and code-driven configuration for Laravel queues.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 30 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily contributed to the front-end of the Laravel Horizon dashboard, implementing features to view recent job details and enhance the user interface. They introduced collapsible panels for job data and tags, and added the ability to view the job's "pushed at" time and whether it was delayed, improving the job preview screen. These changes involved modifications to both the front-end Vue.js components and the back-end controller.
laravel-queuelaravel
raycast/extensions
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dennis's primary contribution involves extending the "Ploi" extension for the "Raycast" platform. This included the addition of new features such as server and site management, as well as API updates. The user made significant modifications to the frontend components using React and TypeScript, focusing on UI elements. The user was also responsible for updating the API integration to accommodate the latest changes.
raycast
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