Giuseppe Mazzapica
Director Of Engineering at Syde GmbH
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Summary
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SeniorGiuseppe Mazzapica is a Director of Engineering with over a decade in web development whose unconventional start in architecture school sparked a long-running career in WordPress and PHP. Since 2016 he has helped scale Syde from a 20-person studio to Europe’s largest WordPress agency, transitioning from hands-on development to strategic engineering leadership. He blends deep technical empathy with people-first management, focusing on the socio-technical challenges of team alignment, innovation, and delivery at scale. A committed open-source contributor and former WP Development Stack Exchange moderator, he brings community-driven best practices into product and process. Known for candid opinions and a dry sense of humor, he pairs rigorous engineering standards with practical realism. Based in Catania, Sicily, he balances conference talks and mentoring with family life, cooking, and reading.
12 years of coding experience
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
133reputation
400reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (190)
phpcs10
cortex10
hierarchy10
phpunit10
double10
lazyload10
composer10
fastroute10
php-cs-fixer10
type-inference10
static-analysis10
multilingual10
wordpress10
mockery10
minification10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Toobo/Hop
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 13 commits, 12 pushes in 3 years 6 months
gmazzap/Brain
Feb 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 37 commits, 10 pushes in 2 years
wordpressphpwordpress-pluginpimple
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