Personal details
- First name: Thijs
- Last name: Feryn
- Location: Brugge (Belgium)
- Date of birth: 09/09/1983
- Email: thijs at feryn dot eu
Education
- I have a Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences (KATHO Kortrijk])
- I was an exchange student at Pohjois-Karjalan Ammattikorkeakoulu in Joensuu (Finland) where I did my thesis in PHP
- I studied at the University Of Gent where I applied for a single credit and took a course in Finnish.
- I’m a Zend certified PHP 5 engineer. You can find my profile on the Zend PHP yellow pages
- I took a corporate coaching training at Linkpower called “Motivational coaching”.
Professional
I’m an evangelist at Combell. We’re the leading webhoster in Belgium. We focus on quality hosting products and solutions.
I’m responsible for community relations and the corporate image. Within the organisation, I also perform training sessions, assist in the product development and do some PHP development/consulting.
Skills
Languages
- Dutch: native language
- French: advanced skills. (reading/writing/understanding/speaking)
- English: expert skills. (reading/writing/understanding/speaking)
- German: basic skills. (reading/understanding)
- Finnish: limited skills. (reading/understanding)
Social
- I’m a very social person
- I’m very confident in speaking foreign languages
- I’m confident in speaking in front of a crowd
- I like getting into contact with people. From a professional point of view I feel very comfortable when speaking to customers/suppliers/partners
General professional skills
- I’m a loyal employee
- I’m not affraid to take responsibility/ownership
- I’m a people person and have experience with people management
- I’m very customer oriented
- I deal with problems in a proactive way
- I’m capable of leading a team
- I’m very flexible and openminded
- I’m a true team player
Development
- General concepts
- Advanced object oriented & design pattern understanding
- Test-driven development experience
- Experience with continuous integration
- Focus on security, performance & scalability
- PHP
- Advanced PHP knowledge (proven via Zend PHP5 Certification)
- Experience with several frameworks (Symfony, Zend Framework)
- Contributor to the project itself
- Understanding of PHP internals, configuration, security and performance
- Other languages
- ASP: basic knowledge
- Java: basic knowledge
- C/C++: basic knowledge
- Javascript: basic knowledge
- CSS/(X)HTML: basic markup knowledge & experience
Databases
- Advanced knowledge of the SQL language
- Knowledge of database design & normalisation
- Experience with query optimisation
- MySQL:
- Expert experience with the MySQL dialect
- Advanced query optimization & performance skills
- MySQL server configuration & administration skills
- Postgres: basic skills
- MS SQL Server: basic/intermediate knowledge
- SQLITE: basic skills
- MS Access: intermediate knowledge
Operating systems
- Linux
- Intermediate Linux user experience
- Intermediate Linux system administration/configuration skills
- Prefered distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora
- Mac OS X: intermediate/advanced user experience
- Windows XP/Vista: intermediate/advanced user experience
- Windows 2000/2003/2008 server: intermediate system administration/configuration skills
Development vs systems
My advanced knowledge of PHP & MySQL combined with my experience in the hosting industry gives me the advantage of making these kind of projects perform ideally on the systems they depend on.
Security, performance and scalability are concepts that I always take into account. I have lots of experience with high profile websites that require high availability.
Caching, loadbalancing, replication, clustering, distributed systems are concepts I master and use on a daily basis.
Open source commitment
- I’m a board member at PHPBenelux
- I’m an active member in the PHP community
- I’m an international speaker
- I’m a regular at PHP conferences
- I’m contributing to various open source projects (PHP, Zend Framework, …)
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