Alessandro Aussems is a pragmatic e-commerce team manager and engineer with nine years of hands-on experience delivering Shopware and Shopify solutions for clients such as Roularta, Dreambaby and CarolineBiss. Promoted from developer to technical lead and now leading Scrum teams at Meteor, he blends frontend and backend expertise with a teacher’s clarity from his lecturing role at KdG. He contributes to notable open-source projects—helping improve PHP tooling in phpro/grumphp and fixing critical Shopware backend bugs—showing attention to code quality and platform reliability. Comfortable in high-stakes projects, he focuses on cutting through complexity to deliver measurable outcomes while continuously professionalizing Shopify practices within his company.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Multimedia Technology, Great Distinction, Bachelor, Multimedia Technology, Great Distinction at Karel de Grote Hogeschool
Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 3.100 community extensions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Shopware 6 platform. They addressed bug fixes, specifically resolving issues with UTF-8 character encoding in the sync API and updating customer language on login. The commits also include enhancements to the order management system by allowing changes to order address custom fields and improvements to the address validation process.
Contributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 28 days
Contributions summary:Alessandro's contributions primarily focus on the development of the `Rector` task within the `grumphp` repository, which is a PHP code-quality tool. Their commits involve adding and modifying the `Rector` task's configuration, updating documentation, and adjusting command-line arguments. The user made several changes to the `RectorTest.php` file, demonstrating the implementation of testing for the features added. The user also refactored the code, updating the config to use snake_case.
phpcode-qualitygit-hookscomposer-plugin
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