Willem Leuverink
Founder & Engineer at Trailhead Labs
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWillem Leuverink is a founder and full‑stack engineer with a decade of experience building web apps, developer tools, and productivity software, specializing in PHP and the Laravel/TALL stack. He combines hands‑on engineering with product thinking, delivering everything from greenfield CRMs and workflow automation to standalone developer utilities. An active open‑source contributor, he has enhanced popular Laravel tooling such as uniSharp/laravel-filemanager with localization, view options and backend fixes. Comfortable picking the right tool for the job, he also works with Vue, Go and Electron to ship cross‑platform solutions like PHPacker and NativePHP. Based in Amsterdam, he runs Trailhead Labs remotely for international clients while maintaining a portfolio of open projects and packages. Outside of code he’s a backyard surfer and gardener, reflecting a pragmatic, hands‑on approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Ingenieur (Ing.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Ingenieur (Ing.), Information Technology at Inholland University of Applied SciencesGeology, Geology at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, German, English
Stackoverflow
164reputation
23kreached
3answers
6questions
Github Skills (20)
file-management10
laravel-mix10
configuration-management10
laravel10
php10
localization9
admin8
image-gallery7
uploading7
picture-gallery7
uploads7
photo-gallery7
laravel-routing6
kmz6
laravel-middleware6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
UniSharp/laravel-filemanager
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Media gallery with CKEditor, TinyMCE and Summernote support. Built on Laravel file system.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Willem primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Laravel file manager. Their work included adding Dutch language support, introducing configuration options for the list or grid view, and implementing a feature to override PHP ini settings. The user also addressed a bug related to file creation time and added the "copy and crop" functionality.
ckeditorfilesystemlaravelsummernotetinymce
gwleuverink/phost
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Receive and debug emails sent from your development environment inside a beautiful, self-contained desktop application
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 8 months
desktop-applicationemail-debuggingemail-developmentnativephpsmtp-server
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