Federico Panini is an equity partner and seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience turning cloud-native, API-first platforms and SaaS ecosystems into strategic growth engines. He has repeatedly scaled engineering organizations—hiring and structuring teams of 20–30+—and driven measurable outcomes like 30% faster time-to-market through DevOps and process alignment. As CTO and VP of Engineering he blends product sensibility with architecture, ensuring technical choices directly support revenue, margins and customer experience. Federico is also an active open-source maintainer who has contributed backend fixes and deprecations cleanup to well-known projects like Elastica (the PHP Elasticsearch client) and Mautic, demonstrating hands-on expertise with search, PHP ecosystems and test-driven refactors. Based in the Greater Modena area, he guides responsible AI enablement and innovation governance so that experimentation is both secure and economically sustainable. His background uniquely combines early-stage founding, enterprise integrations and pragmatic cloud migrations to help companies convert technology into long-term enterprise value.
Contributions:77 commits, 119 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily contributed to the PHP client for Elasticsearch, Elastica. Their work involved removing deprecated methods and functionalities related to Elasticsearch versions, specifically focusing on the removal of methods deprecated in ES 1.6 and features removed in ES 5.0, indicating a focus on maintaining compatibility with Elasticsearch. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of Elasticsearch's features and API, as well as the ability to refactor and update code to align with evolving Elasticsearch versions. Additionally, the user modified tests to remove deprecated functionality, solidifying their role in improving and maintaining the client.
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 30 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Federico primarily focused on refactoring and removing deprecated code related to forms and schemas within the Mautic marketing automation software. They removed references to deprecated themes, deprecated schema helper factories, and deprecated methods, replacing them with more modern approaches and service usages. Additionally, they updated various tests and configuration files, indicating a focus on code maintenance and improvements to the application's backend.
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Federico Panini - Equity Partner Product & Technology at hlpy