Antonio Spinelli is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 14 years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems across fintech, ride-hailing, and retail. He led the launch of Cabify’s Driver Wallet across seven Latin American countries and helped co-found N26’s engineering presence in Brazil, shaping product and engineering practices early on. Antonio combines pragmatic coding—evident in his open-source work refactoring PHP design patterns and improving financial logic in Firefly III—with a strong emphasis on software quality and automation, having contributed extensive PHPUnit coverage to legacy projects. He has driven measurable business outcomes, from creating a new revenue stream at unico IDtech to slashing document rejection and registration errors via backend improvements. As a coach and tech lead, he champions TDD, observability, and platform thinking to reduce cognitive load for product teams. Practical, results-oriented, and comfortable working at the intersection of architecture, product discovery, and operational excellence.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnologia da Informação, Tecnologia da Informação at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP
Sample code for several design patterns in PHP 8.x
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:19 commits, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Antonio primarily focused on refactoring and restructuring existing code within the PHP design patterns repository. Their contributions involved creating and modifying tests for design patterns like Strategy, Chain of Responsibility, Command, and Iterator. These changes included updates to test cases and the underlying class structures, indicating a focus on code organization and pattern implementation. The user also merged updates from the master branch, indicating an active role in maintaining the project.
Contributions:73 commits, 14 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Antonio's commits primarily focus on establishing and expanding code coverage through the use of PHPUnit. They implemented tests for various functionalities within the `ToolsNFePHP` class, covering methods related to directory listing, contingency activation, and XML validation. The contributions demonstrate a commitment to improving software quality and robustness by creating and maintaining automated tests for the project.
uidprojetophpphp-apisped
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.