Jonathan Vanherpe

jobs@freebase.be
Tel. +61 423 129 648

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About me

Birthplace
Kortrijk, Belgium
Birthdate
November 3rd, 1983
Nationality
Belgian
Aus Visa Status
Permanent Resident

Experience

Banxa (June 2021 - Present)
Banxa is a global cryptocurrency on and offramp. I manage the technical implementation and maintenance of the KYC systems. This involves integrating global identity providers and continuously streamlining the onboarding flow to improve user conversion rates and system performance.
  • Maintain and expand API integrations with third-party identity and verification services.
  • Optimize the onboarding experience to reduce friction and improve successful user sign-ups.
  • Handle DevOps tasks, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and deployment automation.
Innovation Group (October 2019 - June 2021)
For Innovation Group I took over management of a legacy system in order to secure it, update it and expand on it. In addition to that I built new tools for them and did server management.
  • AWS
  • CentOS
  • WSL2
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
LittleShovels (March 2019 - June 2021)
As a freelance devops engineer I set up CI/CD and workflows for a remote dev team, and autoscaling on AWS, in order to provide a cost-effective solution for a bespoke Laravel-based CRM.
Xequals (January 2019 - June 2021)
Senior Drupal developer on a freelance basis. This includes multiple projects using Drupal 7 and 8, mostly backend (custom modules, solr configuration, performance optimisations) but some frontend as well.
Icon Agency (May 2018 - November 2018)
Senior PHP developer (contract) at Icon Agency in Melbourne, Australia. I was mostly working on Drupal projects, but was also involved in some Laravel projects, working with Docker and server administration.
  • Drupal 7/8
  • Laravel
  • Docker, AWS, Ansible
Metronome (March 2014 - May 2018)
Tech Lead at Metronome, an advertising agency in Melbourne, Australia. Day-to-day tasks included PHP/JS development, server management and setting the technical direction for development within the agency.
  • Devops (Linux server management, Ansible, AWS, Nagios, Docker, DNS)
  • Symfony
  • Wordpress
  • Drupal
BOA (2011 - 2013)
Web developer at BOA, an advertising agency in Lauwe. I was tasked with general web development with a proprietary CMS, Yii & Drupal. I also did some server administration (Debian, Ubuntu & OS X).
  • Maintaining and creating websites with the agency's homegrown CMS, using PHP, jQuery, MySQL & Smarty
  • Making sure the local mailserver kept running and creating mailboxes/aliases (Mac OS X, postfix & dovecot)
  • Registering domain names for various TLD's and changing DNS records as needed.
  • A dashboard web application that visualises data that was imported from a Microsoft Dynamics NAV system, using Yii, MySQL, XML, PHP & jQuery. Read a detailed description.
  • Several Drupal Commerce based websites, using git, Drupal and Drush. Read a detailed description.
Media Mates (2011)
Web developer at Media Mates, a web agency in Izegem. This job required working with PHP and JavaScript using a custom CMS.
All Hands Volunteers (2010-2011)
Volunteer work with All Hands Volunteers in Léogâne, Haiti. This included leading teams of both international and local volunteers, clearing rubble, construction of schools and some web development (displaying work sites and projects on Google Maps).
Tallieu & Tallieu (2006-2010)
Web developer at Tallieu & Tallieu, an advertising agency in Deinze.
My job involved writing Lasso, PHP, JavaScript, xHTML, CSS as well as some server and database administration. We worked as a team on a wide variety of projects, some of which were high-traffic websites that required MySQL query and Apache optimisations. I was responsible for the server-side code and JavaScript behind a large amount of websites.

Technical Skills

Backend Development
  • PHP (Laravel, Symfony)
  • API Design & Integration (REST, Webhooks, Identity Providers)
  • Database Design & Optimization (MySQL/MariaDB, Redis)
DevOps & Infrastructure
  • Cloud & IaC: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), CloudFormation, Ansible.
  • Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose.
  • Linux: Advanced server management (Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux), Bash scripting.
  • CI/CD: Designing and implementing automated workflows in GitLab and Bitbucket.
Modern Tooling & Workflow
  • AI-Assisted Development: Leveraging AI agents and LLMs for rapid prototyping, complex refactoring, and workflow acceleration.
  • Development Environment: JetBrains ecosystem, specialized in high-productivity backend workflows.
Human Languages
Dutch (Native), French (Native), English (Excellent)