GiovanniĀ Casinelli
Co-Founder & President at Aspire
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGiovanni Casinelli is a serial founder and technology leader with 11 years of experience building product-led startups and developer-facing systems from the San Francisco Bay Area. As Co-Founder, President and CTO of Aspire, he leads the creation of a Financial OS for modern businesses while blending strategy, engineering and product execution. He previously launched multiple ventures including BonAppetour, CryptoJobs and Meteor.link, demonstrating a knack for marketplaces, blockchain hiring and marketer-friendly tooling. Hands-on in back-end development, Giovanni has contributed to open-source PHP projects like a Laravel sitemap generator, improving XML handling and media tag support. A Politecnico di Milano-trained engineer and YC alum, he pairs deep technical chops with repeated entrepreneurial scale-up experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves fast without sacrificing robust engineering foundations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
YC W18, YC W18 at Y CombinatorComputer Engineering IT, Computer Engineering IT at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English, Swedish, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (11)
xml10
php10
sitemap10
laravel10
web-sitemap10
laravel-mix10
composer7
git6
acl6
error-handling6
authentication6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LaraPalCom/laravel-sitemap
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Laravelium Sitemap generator for Laravel.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Giovanni primarily worked on enhancing the `laravel-sitemap` package, focusing on improving XML output and adding new functionalities. They implemented optional tags for image elements within the sitemap XML and encoded XML entities for better compatibility. The user also addressed a merge conflict and introduced a new option related to HTML entity escaping within the application's configuration, and fixed a bug related to a loop iterating over image elements.
phpsitemapsitemap-generatorcomposerlaravel-package
Casinelli/Currency
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 10 months
phpcurrencylaravel-5laravelhandles
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