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About me

Oscar Keur

Amsterdam, NL

Available remote

PHP developer, 11 years freelance, mostly in media and non-profit. Backend is home territory, but I think in terms of what users need from a system, not just what the code does. At Greenpeace I built tools campaign teams could run without calling a developer. At NRC I designed and shipped the editorial CMS from scratch.
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Attributes

Independent
Flexible
User centric
Proactive
Collaborative
Technical
Detail oriented
Adventurous
Accountable

Personal interests

Cooking
Fermentation
Hiking
Culinary history
Board games

Skills

Technologies

PHP

Javascript

AI-assisted development

Python

Techniques

Product Thinking

Problem Analysis

Process optimization

Creative Problem-Solving

Tools & Platforms

Wordpress, incl. Gutenberg

React

Docker

Linux

CI/CD & Automation

Symfony

PHPUnit

Redis

Experience

Professional

Founder / Developer

WikkertWebdesign

2015-present

Since 2015, I've built products across sectors as a freelancer, for NGOs, publishers, research institutes and enterprise clients, each with different constraints, stacks and stakeholders.

  • Delivered products for NGOs, SMEs and enterprise clients: financial calculators, academic data systems, subscription platforms, ticket sales platforms and content sites.
  • Built academic data tools and research systems for organisations including KIT Royal Tropical Institute and WHO.

Clients include:

  • NRC Media
  • KIT Royal Tropical Institute, World Health Organisation
  • Greenpeace
  • The Dutch Review of Books

Lead Engineer

NRC Media

2021-2026

  • Led architecture design and technical direction of a Headless WordPress platform, migrating a legacy multi-site instance to a unified system.
  • Delivered end-to-end: from Proof-of-Concept to production, with early stakeholder involvement.
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices: automated testing, deployment, and code review standards.
  • Mentored junior developers, conducted peer reviews, and established internal documentation.
  • Integrated Redis caching and PHP-FPM, significantly reducing response times under editorial peak load.
  • Integrated WordPress with NRC's broader infrastructure via RabbitMQ for cross-system data synchronisation.
  • Presented technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders, including editorial and management.

Key Results:

  • Delivered the WYSIWYG digital-to-print editor, now used daily by 500-1,000 NRC editors and journalists for print and online publishing
  • Migrated legacy PHP 5/7 codebase to PHP 8 with type safety and automated test coverage
  • Integrated WordPress with the print production system, social media APIs, and internal NRC services

Web Developer

Greenpeace Netherlands

2018-2021

  • Delivered WordPress migration and interactive content via custom Gutenberg blocks.
  • Collaborated directly with marketers and fundraisers from brief to launch.
  • Built and integrated donation forms and lead-generation flows for fundraising campaigns.
  • Introduced CI/CD, code review standards, and automated test coverage across the team.

Key results:

  • Migrated greenpeace.nl (c. 2M annual visitors) from a custom-built CMS to WordPress (Planet4), so campaign teams could publish without a developer in the loop
  • Rebuilt donation and lead-generation flows for national fundraising campaigns
  • Improved GTM setup and built campaign-specific landing pages for digital marketing

Additional experience

Polling station member and president

Dutch elections

2014-present

President

Foundation Wolpop

2015-present

Works Council member

Greenpeace Netherlands

2019-2021

Data Protection Officer

Greenpeace Netherlands

2021

Manager, Bartender

Morebeer

2016-2019

Treasurer

Society Wolbodo

2014, 2018

Founder, event technician

Exquisite Events

2007-2016

Education

Bachelor Technical Policy Analysis and Management

Technical University Delft (2017)

  • Focus on: Transport & Logistics
  • Minor: Software Engineering

Training

  • Emergency Response Officer

    since 2016

  • Future Leadership Programme

    2020-2021

  • SymfonyCon Amsterdam pre-conference workshop days

    2019

  • Google Analytics Masterclass

    2019

  • Nonprofit Campaign Essentials

    2019

Languages

Dutch

Native

English

Fluent (C1)

Spanish

Proficient (B2)

French

Basic (A1)

Availability

Ten years in media and non-profit, three and a half of them at Greenpeace. That also decides who I do not work for.

  • Freelance, permanent employment, interim or contracting, in that order of preference.
  • Up to 32 hours a week. Fractional also possible for freelance work.
  • Amsterdam and anywhere within one hour door to door by public transport: Leiden, The Hague, Haarlem and Utrecht. Delft and Rotterdam city centre only.
  • Remote or hybrid, at most two days a week on site.
Not available for
  • Employers scoring poorly on human rights, weapons, climate, biodiversity, animal welfare, tax avoidance and gender equality.
  • Pure frontend work, pure maintenance, and roles with no influence on what gets built.

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