Sven Luijten
Senior Developer
Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSven Luijten is a Senior Developer with 11 years of backend experience, specializing in Laravel and pragmatic PHP engineering. He builds maintainable APIs and server-rendered web apps, contributes to and maintains several open-source packages—including notable contributions to the core laravel/framework Illuminate components—and frequently engages in framework community channels. Sven pairs clean, readable code with practical DevOps curiosity: he’s actively learning Docker, Kubernetes, Linux internals and exploring Go in his spare time. Based in Gouda, Netherlands, he balances freelance work with senior roles at product companies, bringing a hands-on mindset for improving developer tooling and package ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MBO Computer Software and Media Applications, MBO Computer Software and Media Applications at Curio
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
454reputation
101kreached
8answers
1question
Github Skills (21)
artisan10
laravel-mix10
testing10
package-development10
laravel10
php10
documentation10
apidoc9
api9
service-provider9
console7
command-line7
code-standards7
coding-style7
code-formatting7
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
svenluijten/artisan-view
Apr 2016 - Feb 2022
👀 Manage your views in Laravel projects through artisan
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 289 commits, 95 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributed to improving the `artisan-view` package, focusing on the underlying code structure. They refactored command namespaces, corrected view removal via dot notation, and fixed service provider names in tests. These changes improved the package's flexibility. Further improvements included fixing nesting order of folders, and casting resource options to boolean.
laravelartisanbladelaravel-viewsartisan-command
laravel/framework
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 29 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sven contributed to the Laravel framework by implementing new methods and improving existing ones, primarily focusing on the `Illuminate` components. Their work includes adding a `post()` method to the `Request` class, updating documentation, and fixing an undefined key in a database command. The user also addressed code style issues and added assertions for JSON type validation. Their contributions span areas like HTTP requests, testing, and command-line functionality.
laravelphpframework
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