Laura Folco
Board Member at Direct Approach Solutions
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Folco is an independent Magento developer and consultant with over 14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades of hands-on e-commerce work. Based in New York, she runs LauraFolco.com, serves on the Magento Association board and Mage-OS business control committee, and advises a range of retailers and SaaS vendors on scalable Magento implementations. Her background spans full-stack PHP/MySQL systems, integrations with Django and third-party ESPs, API design for mobile apps, and teaching Magento 2 essentials to engineers. An active contributor to open-source DevOps tooling, she strengthened fabtools’ MySQL support and cross-distro compatibility, reflecting a knack for resilient infrastructure as well as application code. She combines practical consulting delivery with governance experience in community-led Magento projects, helping bridge technical decisions and organizational priorities. Her BA in English Literature underpins clear technical communication and training skills that clients repeatedly cite as differentiators.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA English Literature, BA English Literature at Penn State University
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Github Skills (13)
fabric10
fad10
python10
mysql10
debian8
redhat8
bash6
facebook-open-graph6
postgresql6
magento6
facebook6
ssh5
rpm4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fabtools/fabtools
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Tools for writing awesome Fabric files
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the `fabtools` project by enhancing its MySQL integration capabilities. They fixed a bug related to handling MySQL command-line passwords, improved database query functionality, and added a module for Red Hat MySQL management. Additionally, they integrated system distribution detection to manage MySQL queries for both Debian and Red Hat systems. These changes improved the project's adaptability and robustness for various Linux environments.
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lfolco/vscode-magento2-snippets
Nov 2017 - Dec 2021
A collection of Magento 2 code snippets for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
visual-studio-codemagento-2vscodevscode-extensionsnippets
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