Francesco Malatesta
Senior Software Developer, Amplify at Laravel-Italia
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Malatesta is a senior software developer with 13 years of experience building web and backend systems, currently driving Ads product work at Hootsuite/Amplify. A Laravel specialist and founder of the Italian Laravel community Laravel-Italia, he authors technical PHP guides (SitePoint, HTML.it) and maintains practical open-source tools like a JWT-powered Laravel API boilerplate. He blends hands-on backend engineering—API design, JWT/Dingo integrations, migrations and error handling—with client-facing analysis and spot consultancy, having also taught Laravel workshops for enterprise clients. Based in Rome, he balances product development with grassroots community building and a past career in videogame tech writing, bringing curiosity and a marketer’s sense for engagement to software problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ingegneria informatica, Ingegneria informatica at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English
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Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
jwt-authentication10
php10
api10
rest-api10
database-migrations9
database-migration9
laravel-facade6
forms6
migration6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
francescomalatesta/laravel-api-boilerplate-jwt
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
A Laravel 5.8 API Boilerplate to create a ready-to-use REST API in seconds.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 16 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily focused on setting up and integrating the JWT and Dingo API packages within the Laravel API boilerplate. They configured the necessary files, including `config/jwt.php`, `config/app.php`, and `config/api.php`. Furthermore, the user implemented login, signup, password reset, and protected routes, along with defining the basic API structure and error handling. The user also added and configured routes and added database migration.
apiapi-boilerplateboilerplatelaravel-8php
francescomalatesta/weekend-learning
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:38 commits, 9 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 months
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