Victor Vollbrecht

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Hello, I'm a senior software developer with 6 years of experience. I live in Tilburg, The Netherlands, together with my wife, we got married recently. I was born in 1991, from a german father and an spanish mother.


(+31) 683497118 (Direct call or Telegram, no Whatsapp)

Me and my wife in our wedding

My expertise is web development, mostly backend, but I like UX/UI a lot. My tools have shifted from first mastering PHP to now have fallen in love with functional programming, for real.

I run NixOS in both my personal computer and work laptop, with XMonad, while developing everything on Doom Emacs, on my split keyboard that I soldered myself. I take my profession seriously!

I cannot consider jobs that don't offer 100% remote work because I've managed to fix my neck and back problems by investing in a good Herman Miller chair, great monitors, monitor arms and a standing desk. In order for me to work at my best, I need a good environment that I can control.

CV

Download my CV here.

Projects to showcase?

I won't have a portfolio of a variety of projects to showcase my skills here. Though I do think that is a great thing to do, specially when starting out, these days I prefer a more direct approach: let's talk in an online meeting so you can judge my knowledge in real time.

Please contact me via for a meeting.

What technologies have you used and are familiar with?

Highlights

  • Clojure
  • PHP
    • Laravel
    • Symfony
    • Livewire
    • Psalm
  • Javascript/Typescript/Elm
    • Datastar
    • HTMX
    • Vue.js
    • Alpine.js
    • Elm Lang
  • Other
    • Nomad
    • Kubernetes
    • Personal NixOS VPS, multiple services selfhosted on OCI containers and Arion

Personal interests

Philosophy and personal projects, mostly regarding hardware; microcontrollers, robots, science projects. I also really like going with my wife to Natuurlijk to check the flowers and have a free coffee while she goes around buying plants (yeah I go for the free coffe in their chill area).

What do you think about AI?

Glad you asked! I almost don't use it. I use Doom Emacs for almost everything and I didn't have time, to set it up, because it's not as easy.

The times I've used it it's mostly to avoid writing a small script myself to do some repetitive task, list/string manipulations, and sometimes to investigate obscure stacktraces of technologies I don't know yet enough. Sometimes it's faster than writing a command for jq.