Francesco Abeni
Company Owner at Watchful
Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Abeni is a seasoned software maintenance engineer and entrepreneur with 11+ years building PHP/Symfony applications and running DevOps-driven infrastructure (AWS, LAMP, Docker, Ansible). As co-owner and CTO of Refactory and co-owner at ORA, he blends hands-on development with operational leadership, shipping iterative releases and emphasizing clear customer communication. His background spans web platforms, Joomla extensions, and system administration, reflecting deep full-stack fluency from server ops to front-end JavaScript. Pragmatic and curious, he prefers understanding why solutions fail rather than relying on trial-and-error, which drives robust, maintainable systems. Based in Lombardy, Italy, he brings a practical agile mindset and a track record of turning complex problems into streamlined workflows.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Perito Industriale Capotecnico - High School Diploma, Information Technology, Perito Industriale Capotecnico - High School Diploma, Information Technology at Istituto tecnico
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
4,200reputation
253kreached
202answers
11questions
doctrine-orm
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php
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symfony
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joomla
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Github Skills (123)
api-platform10
bolt10
bundle10
php-framework10
symfony-bundle10
symfony10
elasticsearch-php10
php10
elastica10
phpstorm10
javascript9
jetbrains9
multilingual9
intellij-plugin9
doctrine-orm9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zanardigit/replacer
Dec 2016 - Nov 2020
The engine behind the Replace project
Contributions:100 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
gibilogic/crud-bundle
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 4 years 6 months
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