Tim Groeneveld
Senior Software Engineer at Vonex
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolTim Groeneveld is a Senior Software Engineer in Sydney with 12 years of experience building resilient web and telco systems. At Vonex he focuses on WebRTC and cross-platform mobile telco products (oper8tor), while his day-to-day stack includes Linux, PHP/Laravel, MySQL and nginx. He’s an active open-source contributor—helping harden Laravel and improving test coverage and validation in the widely used Omnipay payment library—demonstrating both backend expertise and a test-first mindset. Tim pairs full-stack development with deep infrastructure and VoIP chops across virtualization, monitoring, DNS and platforms like FreeSWITCH/Asterisk, and in earlier roles he automated billing and operational monitoring at Digital Pacific. Notably, he built ShareSource (an early open-source hosting service) and was early to support Mercurial before Bitbucket, underscoring a long-standing focus on developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (34)
application-framework10
laravel510
utf-810
web-frameworks10
testing10
laravel610
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laravel1010
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creditcard10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/omnipay-common
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Core components for the Omnipay PHP payment processing library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim focused on improving the test coverage and quality of the Omnipay library. They added tests for credit card validation, ensuring that invalid card numbers are handled correctly. They also implemented tests to achieve 100% coverage for the `AbstractRequest` and `AbstractResponse` classes, confirming various functionalities and error handling. Additionally, the user updated tests related to custom brand validation, enhancing the overall robustness of the library.
paymentsomnipaypayment-servicephppayment-gateway
laravel/framework
Jun 2014 - Jun 2015
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by addressing identified bugs and improving code quality. They fixed a typo in a docblock and corrected a logic error in `chunk` function. Further contributions included adding features like allowing chunk to exit when a closure returns false. The user also added a new validation method and test for the same, along with correcting edge cases in URL generation.
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