Marco Salvatore is a full-stack developer and Experts Solution Engineer with a decade-plus of practical experience building and maintaining e-commerce solutions, notably contributing back-end improvements to the widely used open-source PrestaShop platform. Based in Campania, Italy, he blends hands-on Symfony and PHP expertise with a focus on code quality, refactoring, unit tests and internationalization—skills reflected in his PrestaShop contributions. He has held customer-facing and teaching roles, delivering bespoke PrestaShop modules, migrations, and training for Retail 4.0, which gives him an unusual mix of engineering and instructional experience. As a freelancer and certified PrestaShop developer he frequently bridges technical architecture and business needs for online retailers. Currently serving as an Experts Solution Engineer at PrestaShop, he combines product-level insight with deep implementation knowledge. His background includes military service and formal computer science studies, underscoring discipline and a long-standing commitment to technical craft.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea in Scienze Informatiche, Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Laurea in Scienze Informatiche, Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali at Università di Fisciano
PrestaShop is the universal open-source software platform to build your e-commerce solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:118 reviews, 56 commits, 44 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to back-end improvements in the PrestaShop e-commerce platform. Their work included fixing code syntax using php-cs-fixer, adding conditional logic to email templates and form elements related to gift wrapping, and refactoring code for improved maintainability, as well as correcting PHP static calls. The user also updated unit tests and translations, indicating a focus on code quality and internationalization.
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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