Bezalel Hermoso is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building commerce systems and APIs, currently shaping payments and merchant-facing products at Square from San Leandro, California. He brings deep back-end expertise across PHP, JavaScript, and cloud-native tooling, with a track record of improving developer productivity and platform reliability during his time at Weebly (acquired by Square) and ActiveLAMP. His open-source contributions to the official Elasticsearch PHP client demonstrate attention to robustness—adding JSON error handling and preventing integer overflow issues in serialization paths. Comfortable in small expert teams and large product orgs alike, he blends pragmatic engineering with developer experience improvements that keep platforms resilient under real-world load.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology at STI College
Contributions summary:Bezalel primarily focused on improving the stability and robustness of the Elasticsearch PHP client. Their contributions involved handling JSON decoding errors, which included correcting content type specifications and adding exception handling. They also addressed potential integer overflows related to unusually high/low scores, preventing E_NOTICEs. The work demonstrates an understanding of the PHP client's internal serialization/deserialization processes.
Creates a Swagger UI page in your Symfony2 application
Contributions:48 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
phpsymfony-bundlesymfony2swagger-uisymfony
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Bezalel Hermoso - Senior Software Engineer at Square