Hi, my name is Frank de Jonge.
Nice to meet you.
I’m a software person.
For a little over a decade I’ve been working on software that lives
on the web. Early on, I was fortunate enough to come in contact with
the open source community. Through my connections with this community,
I've been able to work on some amazing projects for clients such as
Schiphol Airport, Buma\Stemra, NOS, and more.
I'm the maintainer of a few popular PHP packages; these have been downloaded a total of
255,058,131 times (and counting). Based
on statistics from Packagist, this comes down to 1 out of
every 137 downloads.
In pursuit of being involved in building a product for a longer period of time, I switched
from freelancing to full-time employment. After a brief period at Uber, I joined
Mollie
to help build their platform.
I’m the creator of Flysystem.
I started working on Flysystem late 2013, trying to fix a problem I had. Working with different
types of file storage interfaces had a negative impact on my developer life. By providing a
unified interface for interacting with file systems I was able to solve many of these problems.
As it turned out, it also solves many problems for other people. Flysystem and all the related packages
have been downloaded over 130 million times.
The popularity of Flysystem has far surpassed my wildest expectation. Through its
success, I've been able to speak about it at conferences all around the world.
Read more about Flysystem
I’m a knowledge sharer.
Sharing knowledge is an integrated part of my learning process. It helps me understand
subjects on a deeper level. By doing so, I ensure I'm not a bottleneck for a team or
organization. I believe this attitude, when broadly applied, helps a team scale and
become more efficient.
Outside of the workplace, I share my knowledge with the community. I've spoken at
several international conferences, such as; Laracon EU, SymfonyLife, SymfonyCon,
IstanbulPHP, PHPBenelux, Dutch PHP Conference, New Zealand PHP Conference, and SunshinePHP.
In a more immersive knowledge sharing experience, I've given workshops to teach developers
about Event Sourcing, React, and Event Storming.
I try to blog on a regular basis about the things keep me busy at work.
View my blog
I made EventSauce.
Event sourcing is a very powerful tool you can use to solve problems with software.
EventSauce is a tool you can use to implement event sourcing in your application.
The library is beginning to gain some momentum, downloads are rising, a community is
forming. EventSauce allows you to take control over event sourcing. It provides as simple
base to start creating your event sourced model. It allows you to replace every part
and is explicitly designed to get out of your way. It is as much a reference implementation
as it is a tool you can use.
Read more about EventSauce