Alfonso Benito
Staff Engineer at externalia solutions
San Juan, Balearic Islands, Spain
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Top SchoolAlfonso Benito is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and improving PHP/Symfony backends, microservices, and delivery processes, currently based in the Balearic Islands. He has led cross-functional teams and driven measurable improvements—such as an 80% reduction in production alerts and refined delivery metrics through automation—while promoting TDD, DDD, and clean architecture. Alfonso combines deep technical craft (scalable integrations, RabbitMQ, CI/CD and experiment platforms) with a strong coaching mindset, running knowledge-sharing forums and mentoring through pair programming. He also consults and trains teams on testing, deployment automation, and legacy modernization, often turning monoliths into resilient service architectures. Notably, he builds internal tools that empower non-technical stakeholders, reflecting a practical focus on product outcomes as well as code quality.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
ERASMUS: Some subsjects of Master of Computer Applications (MCA), ERASMUS: Some subsjects of Master of Computer Applications (MCA) at University of LeicesterUniversitat Politècnica de València
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (47)
admin10
translation10
behavior10
doctrine10
bundle10
php10
behavior-tree10
sonata10
traits10
symfony-bundle9
symfony9
payment9
orm9
admin-generator9
symfony-cmf9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wearemarketing/RoutingAutoBundle
Mar 2015 - Apr 2019
Adding automatic route generating on top of the symfony cmf routing
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 70 pushes in 4 years 2 months
phpsymfony-bundlecmfroutingroute
dualhand/todomvc
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Symfony 4 & Prooph TodoMVC Example
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes in 7 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundletodomvcsymfony
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