Junior Grossi
Senior Engineer at Lendable
Galway, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJunior Grossi is a senior software engineer and engineering manager with over 20 years in software engineering and 13 years of professional experience leading teams and shipping distributed systems. Based in Galway, he currently works at Lendable and is the creator and principal maintainer of Corcel, a popular open-source PHP library (4k+ stars, 1.4M+ Packagist downloads) that maps WordPress databases to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. He has led cross-border teams of 7–8 engineers through migrations from monolithic PHP apps to event-driven microservices in Go, building subscription and payments domains on AWS with Terraform. Comfortable both as a hands-on back-end developer and a people manager, he combines technical depth in PHP, Go, MySQL/Postgres and cloud infrastructure with hiring, mentoring and product delivery. His background includes academic work toward a PhD in Information Science and a track record of refactoring legacy systems into maintainable, testable services—an often-understated strength that fuels his pragmatic approach to complex migrations.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasSpecialization Web Application Development, Specialization Web Application Development at PUC MinasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Science/Studies at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
58reputation
4kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (26)
cms10
admin10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
wordpress10
laravel10
php10
backend10
eloquent9
documentation8
database8
database-administration8
databases8
application-framework7
web-framework7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
corcel/corcel
Jun 2013 - Feb 2022
Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 releases, 7 reviews, 825 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Junior primarily focused on implementing features for WordPress integration with the Laravel framework. Their contributions included adding comment support with associated classes and relationships to the WordPress backend. Further improvements involved adding methods to Post and Comment classes. The developer also worked on defining database connection parameters and settings.
taxonomiesshortcodephp-applicationwordpressphp
jgrossi/elephpant.me
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
🐘 a simple website to help you to trade elePHPants 💥
Contributions:56 reviews, 205 commits, 97 PRs in 3 years 1 month
phpsimple-websitetrade
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