Anthony Rappa
Laravel Developer
New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarAnthony Rappa is a seasoned Laravel developer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems from New York. A certified Laravel contributor, he focuses on refactoring, dependency upgrades, configuration hardening, and user security flows—work exemplified by contributions to the widely used Laravel Boilerplate and an authentication-logging package that adds new-device notifications and configurable DB connections. He balances pragmatic engineering with maintainability, often improving code style, translations, and front-end feature toggles like 2FA visibility. Known for quietly improving developer experience and security in open-source projects, he brings a practical, detail-oriented approach to production PHP applications.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
658reputation
164kreached
18answers
32questions
Github Skills (20)
laravel-mix10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
template-engine10
laravel10
php10
notification10
templating10
templating-engine10
database-migrations9
configuration-management9
database-design9
database-migration9
git7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rappasoft/laravel-authentication-log
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Log user authentication details and send new device notifications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 1 review, 54 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily refactored and updated the project's code, including the implementation of notifications for new device logins and failed login attempts. They also updated the handling of other device logout events and made the database connection configurable. Furthermore, the user modified email templates for login notifications and updated the project's dependencies. These updates involved both code structure and configuration improvements.
user-authentication
rappasoft/laravel-boilerplate
Jan 2015 - Aug 2022
The Laravel Boilerplate Project - https://laravel-boilerplate.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 2227 commits, 1018 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anthony's contributions centered on refactoring and updating the Laravel Boilerplate project to the latest Laravel commit, including changes to the database, configuration files, and language translations. They focused on updating dependency versions and codebase to improve code style and maintainability. Further commits involved implementing a feature for the correct display of the 2fa option on the frontend.
laravelphplaravel-boilerplateskeletonboilerplate
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