Jordi Sala Morales
Chief Technology Officer at Runroom Stooa
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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RockstarJordi Sala Morales is an experienced CTO based in Barcelona with 11 years building and maintaining robust web platforms using PHP and TypeScript. As CTO at Runroom and Stooa he blends leadership with hands-on backend work, particularly within the Symfony ecosystem. A core contributor to the widely-used Sonata Project, Jordi has a strong track record of upgrading, refactoring and modernizing bundles for compatibility with newer Symfony versions and improving test reliability. He excels at untangling legacy code, removing deprecations and stabilizing CI—skills that make him as comfortable shipping strategic roadmaps as diving into PHPUnit failures. Colleagues value his pragmatic engineering approach and deep knowledge of PHP tooling applied at product scale.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (25)
admin10
back-end-development10
symfony-bundle10
testing10
doctrine10
bundle10
phpunit10
user-management10
php10
sonata10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
translation9
blocks9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sonata-project/SonataMediaBundle
Feb 2017 - Aug 2022
Symfony SonataMediaBundle
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 384 reviews, 256 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jordi primarily contributed to refactoring and fixing tests within the SonataMediaBundle. They addressed compatibility issues with Symfony 3 by refactoring code, removing deprecated features, and fixing potential issues. The user also made changes to the admin panel by addressing issues with the repository and implementing the correct choice types.
pdfiframebundlephpsymfony-bundle
sonata-project/SonataUserBundle
Feb 2017 - Aug 2022
Symfony SonataUserBundle
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 137 reviews, 121 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jordi primarily contributed to the SonataUserBundle, a Symfony bundle for user management. Their work involved refactoring code to remove deprecated functionalities related to Symfony versions and enhance the code by replacing existing class usage with container has. They updated dependencies to fix build issues and removed non-FQCN from form types. They also fixed the incorrect factory definition and removed some deprecated methods.
ckeditorbundlephpsymfony-bundlesonata
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