Luís Cobucci
Staff Engineer at Mollie
North Holland, Netherlands
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Luís Cobucci is a Staff Engineer based in North Holland with 15 years of experience helping teams balance technical excellence and time-to-market to deliver pragmatic, high-quality software. A self-taught engineer and mentor, he has led refactors, introduced CI/CD and continuous delivery practices, and driven platform migrations and event-driven designs at companies like Mollie, Castor EDC and Usabilla. He is an active PHP open-source contributor—improving projects such as FastRoute, Doctrine, Composer and PHPUnit—where his work often focuses on test suites, modernizing codebases, and robustness of caching and SFTP adapters. Luís combines hands-on backend craftsmanship (including deep familiarity with ORMs, caching and JWT handling) with coaching and process improvements that measurably boost team velocity. Notably, he pairs a pragmatic engineering philosophy with a long-running commitment to code quality and test automation across widely used PHP libraries.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Universidade do Sul de Santa CatarinaBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (75)
dependency-management10
package-management10
testing10
databases10
phpunit10
validating10
persistence10
reflections10
coding-style10
sftp10
composer10
mstest10
validation10
doctrine-orm10
download-manager10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lcobucci/jwt
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
A simple library to work with JSON Web Token and JSON Web Signature
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 releases, 201 reviews, 754 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Luís primarily contributed to the core functionality of a library for working with JSON Web Tokens and JSON Web Signatures. The commits involved implementing a parser, fixing code formatting according to PSR-2 standards, and adding basic token validation capabilities. These changes encompassed implementing foundational components and making some improvements on core functionalities.
tokenssignaturephpjson-web-tokentoken
nikic/FastRoute
May 2019 - Jul 2021
Fast request router for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 53 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Luís primarily focused on improving the project's code quality and maintainability. Their contributions include adding PHPBench for performance tracking, configuring PHPCS with custom rules, and refactoring code to adhere to coding standards. They also addressed code style issues and modernized the codebase by adopting PHP 7.4 features and removing unnecessary dependencies. Finally, the user added new caching tests to cover caching generation.
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