Felix De Vliegher

Software engineering in PHP, back-end and API application development, database modeling, development with SOAP and REST webservices, Linux system administration in a webhosting environment, Linux virtualization solutions.
I'm also a Zend Certified PHP5 and Zend Framework Engineer.

Felix De Vliegher’s Specialties:

- Over 6 years experience in business application development with PHP
- Database design and administration
- Agile development, unit testing, integration testing
- OOP in PHP5, design patterns, refactoring, PHP4 to PHP5
- Webservices, XML, SOAP, REST
- R & D, workflows, standardization
- Frameworks such as Symfony, Zend Framework
- Good feeling with the PHP and open-source community

- Profound knowledge of the Linux OS, system administration
- Linux virtualization with Xen, Virtuozzo

Felix De Vliegher’s Experience

Software engineer

Ibuildings

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Contributor

PHP Group

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Co-founder

PHPBelgium user group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

I'm a co-founder for PHPBelgium, the Belgian PHP user group and community.
The goal of PHPBelgium is to be the central point of information for PHP developers, businesses and educational institutes. We do this by providing workshops, talks and best-practice sessions to share knowledge amongst PHP developers in Belgium.
Software engineer

COMBELL Group NV

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

July 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 6 months)

COMBELL is one of the leading internet hosting companies in the Benelux.

As a software engineer I was responsible for the total workflow and development of most internal applications and services written in PHP. I introduced subversion versioning, a ticketing system, unit testing and continuous integration to the development lifecycle. I also, amongst other projects, developed an internal inventory system which manages the complete server, network and service infrastructure that is present at COMBELL.

I also worked on Linux system engineering and virtualization solutions, such as the linux virtual server platform that is currently part of the services that COMBELL provides.
Top submitter for TestFest 2008

PHP Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — May 2008 (1 month)

The PHP TestFest is a worldwide initiative to increase the code coverage of the PHP core by creating PHPT tests. On May 10, 2008 a Dutch/Belgian TestFest was organized by a joint effort between phpGG.nl and PHPBelgium.be to actively participate in this code testing.

I was chosen top submitter for PHP TestFest 2008, stating "Based on the high quality of his submissions, he has been granted commit rights to the PHP repository." This news has been covered on the php.net website at http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-07-30-1
Internship

Combell Group NV

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — June 2007 (3 months)

Main tasks are:
- Developing (SOAP-based) web API's with PHP
- Linux system administration
Application/database programmer

ExxonMobil

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; XOM; Chemicals industry)

July 2006 — July 2006 (1 month)

This was a summer job during my high-school education.
Designing a back-end database model and developing a front-end application to use in the Antwerp Polymer Plant department of ExxonMobil.
Webdeveloper

Mebrom NV

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Chemicals industry)

July 2005 — July 2005 (1 month)

This was a summer job during my high-school education.
Developing a OOP CMS using PHP/MySql. The CMS featured a customizable templating engine, multilanguage support and used a self-written framework in order to deploy the same website structure in 5 countries the company was active in.
Co-founder & system engineer

Webware

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 9 months)

Co-founded the webhosting company Webware, that filled in a market segment for hosting services aimed at developers, students and small companies. Involved with the initial start-up, Linux system engineering, maintenance and support.
Webware has been merged with Host4All in 2006 under the name VibiT Bvba.
http://www.webware.be and http://www.vibit.eu