Aydin Hassan
Principal Software Engineer at Shopware
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAydin Hassan is a Principal Software Engineer based in Vienna with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-quality PHP and e-commerce systems. He brings deep expertise across major PHP frameworks—Magento 1/2, Symfony, Laravel, Zend and WordPress—and currently focuses on backend architecture and reliability at Shopware. Known for a calm, methodical approach, he champions code quality, unit and integration testing, dependency management and robust CI practices. His open-source work includes backend contributions to Shopware 6 and essential tooling like n98-magerun, plus E2E testing improvements for Composer plugins, reflecting a practical commitment to the ecosystem. A veteran mentor and process improver, he has led migrations of 100+ repositories, introduced testing culture at teams, and automates repetitive workflows to save developer time. Outside work he contributes to free education projects such as php-school, pairing technical craft with community impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma Information Technology, BTEC National Diploma Information Technology at Burton College1st Class BSc (Hons) Forensic Computing, 1st Class BSc (Hons) Forensic Computing at De Montfort University
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Github Skills (27)
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e2e-testing10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
testing10
e2e-test10
magento10
cli-app10
phpunit10
cli-application10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
composer10
test-automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shopware/shopware
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 1.500 community extensions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:239 reviews, 16 commits, 60 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aydin primarily focused on back-end development tasks, particularly in relation to fixing and improving wishlist functionality, which included merging wishlists, managing products, and handling situations with empty products. The user implemented unit tests for the wishlist merge feature and addressed issues with data synchronization. The commits show the user’s involvement in the core checkout and customer functionalities, specifically addressing wishlist-related problems in the Shopware 6 e-commerce platform.
ecommerceshopwareapifirstshopping-cartvue
netz98/n98-magerun
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 36 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Aydin primarily contributed to the backend of the Magento application. Their work included adding installation options and modifying existing commands to enhance functionality. They also introduced a new command for removing attributes and updated existing commands using Symfony table helpers. Furthermore, the user fixed humanFileSize method name and added a command to remove setup resource.
swissapidevelopment-toolscli-appwell-tested
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