Paul Brand
Senior Engineer at Mollie
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorPaul Brand is a Senior Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building polished web applications and APIs, particularly in PHP and JavaScript. At Mollie since 2016 he’s focused on backend refinement and API usability, contributing notable refactors and new endpoints to the widely used mollie-api-php client. He combines pragmatic engineering—renaming and stabilizing methods, improving tests, and adding functionality like issuers and payment methods—with a designer’s eye for enjoyable, accessible interfaces. A curious technologist and knowledge sharer, Paul gravitates toward learning new techniques and improving developer experience across codebases.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
api-rest10
rest-api10
php10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
phpunit9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mollie/mollie-api-php
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Mollie API client for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on refactoring and improving the existing PHP code base for the Mollie API client. This involved renaming methods and parameters in the `PaymentEndpoint` and related classes, as well as adjusting test cases. The commits also included the addition of a new "methods" endpoint and related resources, and the incorporation of issuers when requested, demonstrating an expansion of the API client's functionality. Several changes were made to the code, including some refactoring and adding the `throw` annotation, ensuring the code's stability.
php
shirshir/php-coding-standards
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
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