Luca Saba
Development Team Lead at Facile.it
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Saba is a seasoned Development Team Lead with 14 years of experience building and operating networked services and web applications, currently leading engineering at Facile.it from Cagliari. He blends deep Linux/Nix systems administration and PHP/Symfony backend expertise with practical experience deploying mixed open- and closed-source solutions for sensitive medical and corporate environments. His background spans hands-on infrastructure roles in government and consulting, freelance product development, and owning a web shop, which gives him a strong operational mindset alongside software craftsmanship. An active open-source contributor, he improved image-processing capabilities in the popular LiipImagineBundle—adding PDF support and tightening transformer logic—demonstrating attention to interoperability and code quality. Colleagues appreciate that he pairs leadership with day-to-day coding and system tuning, often surfacing subtle platform gaps before they become problems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo ScientificoBachelor of Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at Università di Pisa
English
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Github Skills (11)
imagick10
php10
symfony-bundle10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
bundle9
appbundle9
file-handling9
error-handling8
xml6
unit-testing4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
liip/LiipImagineBundle
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Symfony Bundle to assist in image manipulation using the imagine library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 7 days
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on improving the image manipulation functionality of the LiipImagineBundle. Their contributions involved adding file transformers to the file loader to support various file types, specifically handling PDF files. They also corrected logic errors and improved code style, while updating the PdfTransformer to inject the Imagick service and improving functionality. These changes enhanced the bundle's ability to process and transform images from different formats.
manipulationbundlephpsymfony-bundleimagine
lucasaba/GitlabTimeTrack
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
A Symfony application to track the time spent on Gitlab's Issues
Contributions:35 commits, 38 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 5 months
symfony-applicationgitlab-apisymfonygitlab
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