Jaap Van Otterdijk
Senior Product Developer at Tilaa
's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJaap Van Otterdijk is a Senior Product Developer with 12 years of experience focused on infrastructure and developer tooling, currently building nexaa.io at Tilaa from 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. He combines hands-on backend and infra work with a strong mentoring ethos, teaching teammates while continually learning to raise engineering quality. An active open-source contributor, Jaap has improved documentation, type resolution and testing across projects like phpDocumentor, Zend Framework and vfsStream—addressing subtle docblock, type and test issues that boost maintainability and coverage. By night he writes and builds documentation-focused tools, operating from the conviction that software starts with understanding the problem and that code is a tool, not the automatic answer. His work is defined by attention to detail and a pragmatic drive to remove everyday friction for engineers.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Technical Informatics, Bachelor, Technical Informatics at Avans University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
reflection10
filesystem10
type-check10
testing10
enforcement10
zend-framework10
document-generation10
php10
code-coverage10
reflections10
type-checking10
coding-style10
documents10
documentation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
phpDocumentor/TypeResolver
Apr 2017 - Dec 2022
A PSR-5 based resolver of Class names, Types and Structural Element Names
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 22 reviews, 167 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jaap made several contributions focused on improving the code quality and functionality of the type resolver. Their commits added missing annotations, enhanced code style, and implemented parent type resolving. The user also introduced support for never pseudo-types, expanding the capabilities of the type resolver.
resolvertyperesolverphpstructuralpsr
phpDocumentor/ReflectionCommon
Jun 2015 - Jul 2022
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 58 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jaap primarily focused on developing the `Fqsen` (Fully Qualified Structural Element Name) value object within the `phpDocumentor/reflectioncommon` repository. Their contributions involved initializing the project, adding methods, and refactoring the code to allow numbers and UTF-8 characters in the Fqsen. The user also introduced the `ProjectFactory` interface and associated changes.
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