Alessandro Senese
Senior Software Engineer at Nearform
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlessandro Senese is a Senior Software Engineer based in the UK with 11 years of experience building reliable web and frontend systems across agencies and finance. He blends back-end craftsmanship with QA discipline—contributing assertion methods and tests to the popular Pest PHP testing framework—to keep code correct and maintainable. His background spans full-stack web work, automated testing, and even AR/Unity and mobile apps, reflecting a knack for adapting new technologies to practical solutions. At Nearform and previously JPMorgan and 93digital, he has led teams, defined development practices, and shipped performant, tested code at scale. Trained originally in aerospace engineering thinking and early hands-on network/datacenter ops, he brings a systems-oriented approach to problem solving. Colleagues value him for turning complex requirements into simple, testable implementations.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ing. Aerospaziale, Ing. Aerospaziale at Seconda Università degli Studi di NapoliTelecomunicazioni, Telecomunicazioni at Operatore telematico
Italian, Esperanto, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
application-framework10
assertion10
app-framework10
web-framework10
pest10
php10
assert10
test-automation10
testing10
acf-pro6
wordpress6
listjs6
javascript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pestphp/pest
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Pest is an elegant PHP testing Framework with a focus on simplicity, meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily contributed to the Pest testing framework by adding new assertion methods and corresponding test cases. They implemented functionality for assertions like `toBeEmpty`, `toBeFalse`, `toBeGreaterThan`, `toBeLessThan`, `toContain`, `toContainString`, `toContainOnlyInstancesOf`, and others. The user also wrote tests to ensure the correct behavior of these new assertion methods, covering different scenarios, including failures and edge cases. These updates expanded the framework's capabilities and improved its test coverage.
testing-frameworktestingphpframeworkphpunit
ceceppa/godot-gut-ci
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Run your Godot GUT tests on CI
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 6 months
gutgodot
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