Federico Galassi
Mentor at Lead The Future Mentorship
Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolFederico Galassi is a pragmatic software engineer and mentor with 16 years of experience building web applications and fostering engineering talent from Imola, Italy. He blends deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript and Ruby with a strong background in backend systems and test automation, having contributed fixes and robust tests to the well-known Slim PHP microframework. Federico has held senior roles at Google and YouTube and brief executive engineering leadership at Bending Spoons, demonstrating the ability to scale both teams and systems. He’s passionate about agile practices, continuous improvement, and developer ergonomics—favoring tools and techniques like Vim, Git, and the Pomodoro method to sustain focus and quality. As a long-time mentor at Lead The Future, he pairs pragmatic coding skills with coaching to accelerate others’ growth. Outside of work he’s a chess player, an indicator of his strategic, detail-oriented problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Bologna
Italian, English, German
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Github Skills (22)
application-framework10
testing10
app-framework10
request-handler10
phpunit10
php10
webrequest10
http-request10
slim10
web-framework10
httpwebrequest10
rxjs9
micro-framework9
socket6
filter6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
slimphp/Slim
Apr 2011 - Aug 2012
Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily focused on improving the Slim framework's request handling and testing capabilities. They fixed a bug related to uninitialized flash variables, ensuring the `stop()` method functions correctly. The user added tests for various request scenarios, including form data handling and content type parsing. Additionally, they addressed issues related to cookie handling, specifically addressing scenarios with multiple cookies of the same name and comma-separated cookies.
micro-frameworkguzzlephp-frameworkslim-frameworksimple-yet-powerful
marco-faustinelli/rcfiles
Apr 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:55 commits in 2 years 2 months
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