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Rob Meijer
Rob Meijer
Engineering Manager

I am an experienced Engineering Manager / Lead Developer with excellent problem-solving abilities as a result of my analytical and inquisitive nature, and many years of experience in the IT industry. I have a natural affinity for technology, and a keen interest in everything related to computers. I pride myself on my attention to detail, and the care I take in everything I produce. As an articulate and diplomatic communicator with a warm and friendly demeanour, I am comfortable interacting with clients, as well as mentoring and encouraging fellow developers.

github.com/robmeijer bsky.app/profile/robmeijer.dev www.linkedin.com/in/robmeijerdev
Languages

- English (Native)
- Afrikaans (Native)
- Dutch (Conversational)

Interests

- Cyclist and mountain biker
- Table tennis player
- Follow cutting edge technology trends
- Keen interest in PC gaming

Employment history
Engineering Manager
Xplor Current
Feb 2024 – Present
  • Line manager for a multi-discipline software engineering team
  • Conduct all Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, refinement sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives
  • One-to-one meetings with team members, to address needs and career aspirations
  • Work with the product manager to scope projects and break them down into user stories
  • Research and development, which includes investigating technical requirements, documenting available options and trade-offs, and building prototypes
  • ↳ Implemented a feature flag system driven by a 3rd party provider, with a strong focus on developer experience
  • ↳ Assisted in the migration from BitBucket to GitHub Enterprise, which involved rewriting BitBucket pipelines to GitHub Actions
Lead PHP Developer
Immediate Media Co
May 2017 – Sep 2023
  • Mentor PHP developers across all teams
  • Recruitment of new PHP developers, which includes vetting of CVs, and interviews
  • Identify areas in the CMS platform which should be focussed on to improve stability and developer experience
  • Assist in devising standards and best practices for PHP developers across all teams
  • Oversee new development work across all teams to ensure best practice is followed
  • Develop and implement tooling that help improve the developer experience, e.g. project skeletons, automation scripts, etc.
  • ↳ Introduced the use of Composer to manage dependencies in WordPress
  • ↳ Developed a skeleton project for new WordPress plugins, which follows OOP standards, and allows for proper unit testing
LEMP WordPress GitHub Enterprise OOP PHPUnit Composer Symfony Framework AWS Toolkit Docker Jenkins Vagrant Virtualbox Code Reviews Documentation SOLID Principles
Technical Team Lead
Immediate Media Co
Aug 2016 – Apr 2017
  • Conduct all Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, shaping sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives
  • Acting line manager for team of both front- and back-end developers
  • Regular one-to-one meetings with developers on the team, to address needs and career aspirations
  • Work with product manager to scope projects and break them down into user stories and estimates
  • Assist across teams with technical discussions involving PHP requirements
Atlassian Suite Agile methodologies Scrum
Earlier positions
Development Team Lead / Scrum Master
Interactive Investor
Jan 2016 – Jul 2016
Senior Developer
Interactive Investor
Dec 2014 – Jul 2016
Support Team Leader
WorldStores Ltd
Feb 2014 – Nov 2014
Senior Developer
WorldStores Ltd
Aug 2009 – Nov 2014
Web Developer
Oragon Ltd
Apr 2009 – Jul 2009
Technical Consultant
Swiftpro Ltd
Aug 2004 – Apr 2009
Technical Consultant
The National Horseracing Authority
Dec 1997 – May 2004
Technical skills
Technologies
  • LAMP
  • XML
  • JSON
  • Redis
  • Beanstalkd
  • Supervisord
  • Google Analytics
  • APIs
  • Containers
Languages
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
Frameworks / Libraries
  • Symfony Framework
  • PHPUnit
  • WordPress CMS
  • Bootstrap CSS
  • JQuery
  • Laravel Framework
  • Lumen
  • Zend Framework
  • Zend Expressive
  • Silex
  • CodeIgniter
Standards
  • MVC
  • SOA
  • OOP
  • PSR-x
  • HTTP
  • REST
  • AJAX
IDEs / Tools
  • JetBrains PHPStorm
  • Docker
  • GitHub Enterprise
  • AWS Toolkit
  • Atlassian Suite
  • MySQL Workbench
  • VirtualBox
  • Vagrant
  • Composer
  • Jenkins
  • VSCode
Databases
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Sqlite
Web Servers
  • Apache
  • Nginx
Version Control
  • Git
  • SVN
  • Mercurial
Additional Skills
  • E-Commerce
  • SEO
  • Scrum
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Code Reviews
  • Documentation
  • SOLID Principles
  • Unit Testing