Melchior Kokernoot is a Senior PHP Laravel developer with nine years of experience building web applications across one-person studios and enterprise teams, currently contributing to nationwide contact-tracing software for the Dutch Ministry of Health. He specializes in the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, Livewire) and combines a strong PHP foundation with a particular interest in system architecture and database performance. As co-founder of a web studio and a teaching assistant in database design and infrastructure, he blends practical client-facing delivery with mentoring and pedagogy. Passionate about clean code and continuous refactoring, he favors maintainable systems that scale and performs well under load. Based in Groningen, he remains actively engaged in open source and lifelong learning, applying academic training in software engineering to real-world public-sector and commercial projects.
9 years of coding experience
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 9 at Hanzehogeschool Groningen / Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Regionaal Onderwijscentrum Kop van Noord-Holland
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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