Portrait of Thomas Wijnands

Senior Laravel Certified · 2025

Hi, I'm Thomas Wijnands.
I craft solid web applications.

Software developer at SWIS, a digital agency in Leiden. I build with Laravel and love Livewire — with Vue.js and React in the toolbox too. Shipping projects on time, every time.

// based in Katwijk, the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Get in touch php artisan show:work

@section('about')

I'm a passionate software developer who's always eager to learn. For the past years I've been building web applications at SWIS — from robust APIs and integrations to full-blown platforms — with Laravel as my weapon of choice and Livewire as my favourite way to wield it.

Before SWIS I built and maintained the Laravel-powered webshop godu.nl at Godu, and crafted Magento 2 storefronts at TIG — where I learned that the best code ships on schedule. I take pride in finding a solution, even if it costs me a weekend.

When I'm not pushing commits, I'm probably reviewing a PR, tinkering with a side project, or convincing someone that a queue job will fix their problem. (it usually does)

$ php artisan about

Developer
Thomas Wijnands
Role
Software Developer
Employer
SWIS — Digitaal bureau
Location
Katwijk, NL
Certification
Senior Laravel (2025)
Languages
Dutch / English
Loves
Livewire
Coffee
BREWING

@section('skills')

$ cat composer.json

{
    "name": "thomas-wijnands/developer",
    "description": "Builds solid solutions",
    "require": {
        "php": "^8.x",
        "laravel/framework": "*",
        "livewire/livewire": "<3",
        "vuejs/vue": "^3.0",
        "react/react": "^19.0",
        "coffee/espresso": "dev-main"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "stable"
}

back-end

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • Eloquent
  • Queues & Jobs
  • Testing

front-end

  • Livewire
  • Alpine.js
  • Blade
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • JavaScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Inertia.js
  • Magento 2

tooling

  • Git
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Composer
  • Linux

@section('experience')

$ php artisan migrate

  1. 2022_01_01_000000_join_swis_as_software_developer RUNNING

    Software Developer

    SWIS — Digitaal bureau · Leiden

    2022 — present

    Building and maintaining web applications and platforms for a wide range of clients. Laravel back-ends, Livewire, Vue.js and React front-ends, API integrations, and contributing to SWIS' open-source packages along the way.

  2. 2021_01_01_000000_join_tig_as_software_developer DONE

    Software Developer

    TIG

    2021 — 2022

    Built Magento 2 webshops, with a focus on front-end work — themes, components and pixel-perfect storefronts.

  3. 2019_01_01_000000_join_godu_as_software_developer DONE

    Software Developer

    Godu

    2019 — 2021

    Worked on godu.nl, a webshop built in Laravel — my first professional development work, learning to own a problem until it's solved.

@section('education')

$ php artisan db:seed

Database\Seeders\WindesheimSeeder DONE

Software & IT Business

Windesheim Flevoland

2019 — 2021

Studied software development and the business side of IT — the foundation for everything that followed.

Database\Seeders\NovaCollegeSeeder DONE

Software Development

Nova College

2017 — 2019

Where it all started: learning to program and discovering that building things for the web is the best job there is.

@section('open-source')

contributor

swisnl/laravel-mautic

A Laravel wrapper for the Mautic API — marketing automation, the artisan way.

composer require swisnl/laravel-mautic →
contributor

swisnl/laravel-lti-provider

An LTI provider for Laravel, connecting learning platforms to external tools.

composer require swisnl/laravel-lti-provider →
profile

github.com/tommie1001

My own experiments and contributions — plus more SWIS packages over at github.com/swisnl.

visit my GitHub →

@section('contact')

Let's build something solid.

Want to talk Laravel, a project, or just trade queue-job war stories? My inbox is open — no rate limiting applied.

Send an email LinkedIn GitHub

$ cat .env

# Contact configuration
APP_NAME="Thomas Wijnands"
APP_ENV=production
CONTACT_EMAIL=[email protected] 
LINKEDIN_URL=linkedin.com/in/thomas-wijnands
GITHUB_URL=github.com/tommie1001
LOCATION="Katwijk, NL"
OPEN_TO_INTERESTING_PROJECTS=true