Walter Tamboer
Senior Developer at Shareforce
Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands
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RockstarWalter Tamboer is a Senior Developer based in Vlaardingen, Netherlands with 13 years of software engineering experience, blending game-development creativity with pragmatic, defensive coding. He is language-agnostic but favors the C-family (C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, JS, TS) and thrives on inventing and refining technical concepts into shippable solutions. His career spans lead roles in game studios, long-term open-source volunteering, and a current senior role at Shareforce. Notably, he improved cross-platform test reliability in the widely used Zend Framework by fixing unit tests for Windows-specific issues, underscoring a knack for robust, cross-environment engineering.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German, French, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (8)
zend-framework210
unit-testing10
phpunit1010
zend-framework10
cross-platform10
phpunit10
testing10
test-automation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Jul 2012 - Jan 2015
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:65 commits, 5 comments, 2 issues in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Walter primarily focused on fixing unit tests within the Zend Framework codebase. Their contributions involved modifying tests to ensure they passed consistently across different operating systems, particularly Windows. They addressed issues related to end-of-line characters and file path discrepancies, impacting tests for various components such as view helpers, and the sitemap helper. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability and cross-platform compatibility of the testing suite.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
polderknowledge/coding-standards
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
The Polder Knowledge coding standards for PHP_CodeSniffer.
Contributions:10 releases, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years
knowledgephpstandardsphp-codesniffercodesniffer
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