Manuel Spagnolo
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Contentful
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Spagnolo is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with nine years of experience building integrations, marketplaces, IAM, and high‑throughput transactional systems. With a strong mathematical background and formal jazz studies, he blends analytical rigor and creative problem solving to tackle technical and organizational challenges. At Contentful he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Senior Staff, contributing to frontend, infrastructure, and marketplace apps—fixing integrations (Bynder, Jira), adding a GraphQL playground, and improving deployment configs. He is passionate about mentoring and learns by teaching, often thriving in multicultural teams. Notably, his open-source work on Contentful apps demonstrates practical full‑stack impact across UX, auth flows, and deployment pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Conservatorio di Musica "Licinio Refice" - FrosinoneMaster's degree Matematica, Master's degree Matematica at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, French
Stackoverflow
400reputation
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
infrastructure-as-code9
graphql9
cicd8
netlify8
jira7
react-router6
ecmascript6
google-chrome6
react-router-dom6
angularjs6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/apps
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Apps on the Contentful Marketplace and resources to build them
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:98 reviews, 22 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the frontend and infrastructure aspects of the Contentful apps repository. They fixed bugs related to the Bynder and Jira integrations, including button copy and OAuth window behavior. The user also implemented a GraphQL playground feature, involving its deployment and configuration. Additionally, the user made changes to the Netlify configuration, updating PubNub and increasing the maximum number of configurations.
cloudinaryimage-focal-pointsmartlingfrontifycapistrano
shikaan/shikaan.github.io
Mar 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 62 PRs in 5 years 7 months
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