Senior Web Application Architect, DevOps & Microsoft Azure Expert - Michelangelo van Dam

Helping businesses to migrate to the web, improve quality and automate deployments.

• PHP / Web Applications
  • Custom applications
  • Web shops and e-commerce platforms
  • ERP/CRM systems
  • Marketing and promotional applications
  • Industry specific applications for health care, finance, justice and defence
• Quality Engineering
  • Setting up testing frameworks (PHPUnit, DBUnit, Behat, Selenium)
  • Implementing Continuous Integration (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI)
  • Automating Deployments (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible)
  • Pipelining (Jenkins, GitHub, BitBucket, Azure)
• Platforms
  • Linux (Debian, RedHat, Arch Linux, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu)
  • Cloud
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Virtualisation (Vagrant, VirtualBox, VMWare)
  • Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Serverless (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda)
• Concepts & principals
  • S.O.L.I.D.
  • K.I.S.S.
  • D.R.Y.
  • Shift Left
  • DevOps (DevSecOps)
  • Chaos engineering
• Remote and on-site experience
  • Working remote with remote teams for multiple international clients since 2014
  • Working on-site for local clients since 2009

In the role as External Azure DevOps Engineer I am responsible to bridge the gap between development, operations, QA, security and business. I work closely with technical and solutions architects to define technical approaches for projects and automate processes to deliver code, quality, security, compliance and infrastructure in an automated fashion while ensuring feedback is provided fast to the different stakeholders involved in the project.

For my contributions to the project and my community influence, I was giving offical Zend Framework training on-site to customers.

• Zend Framework Fundamentals
• Zend Framework Advanced
• Zend Framework Master

As an expert on Zend Framework application development, I provide on-line training courses for php|architect:

• Essential Zend Framework training courses for PHP|Architect
• Professional Zend Framework Developer training courses for PHP|Architect

As an expert on Zend Framework application development, I provide on-line training courses for php|architect:

• Essential Zend Framework training courses for PHP|Architect
• Professional Zend Framework Developer training courses for PHP|Architect

BAS Trucks, European leader in used trucks, shares the same passion for their business as I have for PHP technology. Working at BAS Trucks is not a job, it's an adventure where old-school sales techniques and cutting edge technologies prove to be the foundations of success.

As architect and development lead I listen to the business and see how their needs can be supported by technology, advice and coach development teams and improve processes while safeguarding quality and security.

Macq NV hired my services for development of web applications to control their own build hardware, coaching and training of in house PHP development teams and to upgrade and improve their development processes.

• Implementation of Quality Assurance (QA) and testing platform
• Development of an application monitoring pump stations for tunnels
• Development of an application controlling road signs above highways
• Development of an application to control and manage speed enforcement equipment
• Implementation of version control, bug tracking, reporting and logging
• Interfacing with back-end systems and hardware drivers
• Integration of LDAP Single Sign On module

PHP web application development.

• development on mass-user web application

Recent work involved:

• development of mass user web applications
• PHPUnit Testing on code base and MVC compontents
• AJAXification of existing applications
• performance tuning Zend Framework apps

As IT consultant I work in-house on fixed-priced projects (Mobistar) or at the customer's location (Belgian Railways - NMBS/SNCB). These projects mainly are front-end interfaces for manipulating back-end systems, based upon the industry standard Zend Framework.

• installation and configuration of a complete development environment (LAMP)
• development of the PDF reports generated by Zend_PDF
• development of a LDAP connector accessible via Web Services
• technical analysis and lead development for a security intranet application
• development using Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns and Zend Framework
• AJAX interfaces with Yahoo UI Toolkit and EXTJS
• Test-Driven development with PHPUnit

As ICT Manager, I'm responsible for all ICT related issues on the 6 sites located on the outskirts of Brussels, from where this non-profit organization operates.

• project management on external development for integrated back-office application
• network architecture and design
• responsible for purchase and leasing contracts
• license management
• support and problem solving

Designing and developing mass user web applications and integration of third party/open source software packages for Belgiums secondary leading ISP.

• evaluation and integration of NetIQ's WebTrends Reporting Center
• partially designing and developing our customer services platform (myTelenet)
• developing various online tools for B2C purposes
• designing and integration of customer tools based on open source projects

Developing and maintaining web applications for their customers and integration of web services.

• Online shop for Adobe Europe (http://eurostore.adobe.com)
• Online reservations for Belvilla holliday houses (http://www.belvilla.nl)
• Maintenance of the KNSA website (http://www.knsa.be)

• maintenance of network for cyber café
• setting up game servers for online gaming

• development customer applications for digital media (CD-ROM and website)
• creation of the European award winning customer CD-ROM 12move.com
• building co-branded online and off line marketing projects

• providing support by phone to customers
• check remote services (POP3, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP)
• report network failures