Antonio Vilar
Senior PHP Developer at Emagister.com
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAntonio Vilar is a Senior PHP Developer with over 12 years of hands-on experience and more than 15 years in software engineering, based in the Greater Barcelona area. He specializes in PHP backend systems, legacy refactoring, payment integrations and API design, and has driven feature development and quality improvements at companies like Emagister, Mendeley and OpenBet. A strong advocate of Clean Code and test coverage, he has a track record of improving maintainability—evident in contributions to the widely used doctrine/collections library where he focused on visibility fixes, test cleanup and code quality. Comfortable in high-transaction environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a continual learning mindset and a habit of elevating team practices through code reviews and pair programming. Notably, he has experience shifting social paradigms in web platforms and opening services to third-party developers via RESTful JSON APIs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer, Computer Engineer at Universitat Jaume I
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
php10
lib10
object-oriented-programming9
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/collections
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Collections Abstraction Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Antonio primarily contributed to the library by enhancing code quality and maintainability. Their commits focused on improving code style, adding method visibility declarations, and tidying up the test suite. These changes involved refactoring existing code, fixing visibility issues, and ensuring the tests were compliant with the project's coding standards. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving code structure and reliability within the collection abstraction library.
javaabstractionabstraction-librarycollections
Emagister/doctrine-orm
Jul 2016 - Apr 2020
Doctrine 2 Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 9 months
orm-object-relational-mapperrelationalmysqlphpdatabase
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