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Gert de Pagter

Software Engineer

YourSurprise

Biography

Gert de Pagter is a software engineer at YourSurprise. His software engineering interests include testing and code quality.

Interests

  • Software engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Magic

Education

  • HBO-ICT, 2020

    HZ University of Applied Sciences

Skills

PHP

90%

Mathematics

30%

Magic

0%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

YourSurprise

September 2019 – Present Zierikzee
My daily job includes improving the website, and improving software quality along the way.
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

YourSurprise

September 2019 – February 2020 Zierikzee

An internship where i research the relation between software testing and the quality of code.

I help the team increase software quality across the board, and introduce more tests in the code base.

 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Ibuildings

January 2018 – January 2020 Vlissingen
Responsibilities include:

  • Software development
  • Leading tactical meetings
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Ibuildings

September 2017 – January 2018 Vlissingen
During my internship I worked on the call for papers application for the Dutch PHP conference

Accomplish­ments

Shortest Paths Revisited, NP-Complete Problems and What To Do About Them

Coursera Apr 2019
The fourth of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on NP complete problems.
See certificate

Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming

Coursera Mar 2019
The third of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on greedy algorithms and dynamic programming.
See certificate

Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures

Coursera Feb 2019
The second of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on graphs algorithms and data structures.
See certificate

Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms

Coursera Feb 2019
The first of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on divide and conquer algorithms
See certificate

Recent Posts

Testing code that generates warnings

Our code base has a lot of code that looks like this: try { $this->doScaryThing(); } catch(Exception $e) { …
2019-11-21 1 min read PHP

What is the boy scout rule

Our code base is a lot like a camp site, and we can learn a thing or two from the boy scouts.
2019-11-11 6 min read

When to add comments

Most code bases have far too much comments, while only a few are really usefull.
2019-10-31 6 min read

PHP is already strictly typed

PHP is already strictly typed, in the same way that JavaScript is. Not through the language itself, but with the help of tooling. …
2019-08-16 2 min read PHP

The modern PHP developers toolbox

The tools a modern PHP developer needs to strive.
2019-04-26 7 min read PHP
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Projects

Packages that I either maintain, or i contribute a lot to.

Webmozart Assert

An assertion library for PHP
Github

Infection

A mutation testing framework for PHP
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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Finding bugs in seconds

Using static analysis to find bugs, and it only takes a few seconds.
2019-12-10 18:00 Ibuildings

Finding bugs in seconds

Using static analysis to find bugs, and it only takes a few seconds.
2019-11-19 19:00 Leviy

Finding bugs in seconds

Using static analysis to find bugs, and it only takes a few seconds.
2019-10-29 19:00 PHPro
Slides

Finding bugs in seconds

Using static analysis to find bugs, and it only takes a few seconds.
2019-10-09 18:30 Dropsolid
Slides

Contact

  • KvK number: 78147468