Gabriel Somoza
Competence Lead Magento Adobe Commerce at Take The Lead
Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
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Top SchoolGabriel Somoza is a seasoned Ecommerce and Magento/Adobe Commerce architect and leader with 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling commerce platforms. As Managing Director and founder of Ancor'd (now part of Customer Collective) and Competence Lead at Take The Lead, he combines technical architecture, distributed team leadership, and merchant-focused strategy to deliver measurable business outcomes. He mentors and manages international development teams across multiple regions, enforcing high-quality standards and pragmatic best practices. An active open-source contributor, Gabriel has contributed to core PHP projects including Zend Framework and notable libraries like twitter-ruby, reflecting deep backend and API expertise. He blends entrepreneurial drive with a developer’s attention to detail—often sponsoring community events and organizing local meetups such as PHP Limburg. Based in Hasselt, Belgium, he’s known for turning complex ecommerce requirements into affordable, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Humanities and Social Sciences, High School Humanities and Social Sciences at Aberdare CollegeCambridge International Certificate of Education (ICE/IGCSE) English Physics History Maths Literature Food and Nutrition Spanish, Cambridge International Certificate of Education (ICE/IGCSE) English Physics History Maths Literature Food and Nutrition Spanish at University of CambridgeEngineer’s Degree (Unfinished) Information Technology, Engineer’s Degree (Unfinished) Information Technology at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, Spanish, Dutch
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Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
data-validation10
apidoc10
zend-framework10
twitter-api10
ruby10
php10
api10
filter10
back-end-development9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
html6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sferik/twitter-ruby
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on implementing and refactoring methods related to the Twitter API within the `twitter-ruby` library. Their work involved overloading existing methods to accept screen name parameters, enhancing functionality related to user information, timelines, lists, and profile images. The commits demonstrate a solid understanding of the Twitter API and Ruby programming, as they modified the core library code. The refactoring and introduction of the `get_screen_name` method suggest a focus on API interaction and user data retrieval.
apirubytwitter-clienttwitter-apitwitter
zendframework/zendframework
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the Zend Framework by developing and refactoring filter classes. Their work included creating a `WhitelistFilter` and refactoring to separate `Whitelist` and `Blacklist` classes. The contributions included tests for these classes and integrating them within the `FilterPluginManager`, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the framework's filtering capabilities. The commits show a focus on data validation and transformation within the Zend framework.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
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