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Jeroen Derks

Software engineer — PHP, Laravel, backend, security
Selected work, 2004–2026 — 14 projects

Screenshots marked web.archive.org are Internet Archive captures, showing those sites as they stood during the engagement rather than today. Where a screenshot shows something other than the work described, the card says so. Every project title, screenshot and link pill in this document is clickable.

Reveal URLs
01

Reveal URLs

2025 — now
Own product

Browser extension and mail add-on that shows each link's real destination, so a phishing mismatch is plain to see. Runs entirely locally, no tracking.

ChromeEdgeOperaFirefoxThunderbirdreveal-urls.eu ↗
Vibe-Coding Detox Klinic
Own project

A satirical consultancy for codebases damaged by over-use of AI autocomplete, with diagnostic criteria and an anonymous assessment tool.

Crush Culture
03

Crush Culture

2025 — now
Client work

Website and CMS for a local bar's menu, events and DJs, hosted on CloudFlare Pages with a Worker handling the contact form.

CloudFlare PagesWorkersHTMLCSSJavaScriptcrushculture.es ↗
Smoove Exchange
04

Smoove Exchange

2021 — now
CTO / co-founder

Digital marketplace connecting farmers directly with distributors: real-time price updates, localized single-province marketplaces, fewer intermediaries.

LaravelReactAWSFirebasePubNubCordovasmoove.world ↗
Laravel Blade Lint
05

Laravel Blade Lint

2018 — now
Own open source

Artisan command that validates every Blade template by compiling it to PHP and checking for syntax errors, without executing it. Multi-process and CI/CD-friendly. Nearly 600,000 installs.

PHP 5.6+Laravel 5.4–12Composerpackagist.org ↗
Altix Capital
06

Altix Capital

2022 — 2025
Lead backend Laravel developer

Fintech opening private equity to individual investors. Bootstrapped front and back end from scratch to first onboardings within months: sign-up and investment flow, KYC, digital contract signing, DevOps and automated deployments.

PHPLaravelMySQLDockerGitLabDigitalOceanaltix.nl ↗
Stackscale web.archive.org · 2015
07

Stackscale

2012 — 2017
Lead developer

Private-cloud provider. Authentication and authorisation API, a task-queue library, VMware management tooling, drivers for Cisco/Force10/Arista network equipment, and NAS/datastore management.

PHPPythonMySQLPerconaDjangoExtJSarchived 2015 ↗
Trojan Scan
08

Trojan Scan

2005 — 2014
Own project

A tool to scan servers regularly for unwanted processes. Featured on Linux.com at the time.

Elsevier web.archive.org · 2012
09

Elsevier

2012
Magento developer

Magento extension for accepting a licence agreement on a specific product.

PHPMySQLjQueryMagentoarchived 2012 ↗
Tele2 web.archive.org · 2011
10

Tele2

2011
Senior PHP programmer

iDEAL integration for online payments, a server uptime page on the Pingdom API, a management tool for affiliate snippets, and enabling a new product line.

PHPZend FrameworkMySQLjQueryPingdom APIarchived 2011 ↗
ABN AMRO web.archive.org · 2010
11

ABN AMRO

2010 — 2011
Senior PHP programmer

Smartjobs, the new internal vacancies site, built together with the product owner, an interaction designer, design agency Luyfel, IT infrastructure and the hosting provider.

Screenshot shows the public abnamro.nl of the period — Smartjobs itself was internal.

PHPMySQLTomatoCMSZend FrameworkLinkedIn APISeleniumarchived 2010 ↗
TomTom web.archive.org · 2008
12

TomTom

2008 — 2009
PHP software developer

Part of the development team behind the TomTom website. Built an Apache authentication module based on mod_auth_tkt, and improved the application framework.

PHPSmartyMSSQLCOpenSSLScrumarchived 2008 ↗
Telfort web.archive.org · 2005
13

Telfort

2004 — 2007
Senior PHP programmer

Built an application framework as the basis for new applications and re-implemented the site's registration and authentication on top of it. A crystal-box audit of the code found no critical problems, praising its “almost perfect input validation”.

PHPPEARMySQLJavaScriptarchived 2005 ↗
marktplaats.nl web.archive.org · 2006
14

marktplaats.nl

2006
PHP developer

Part of the development team, responsible for multiple projects across the website and its maintenance.

PHPPEARSmartyMySQLarchived 2006 ↗