Matteo Mattei
Lead Software Engineer at Elemental Machines
Camugnano, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolMatteo Mattei is a Lead Software Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience spanning Linux systems, backend development, cloud infrastructure and lab-focused IoT at Elemental Machines. He prefers open source tooling and has repeatedly combined deep sysadmin skills (Linux, networking, mail systems, virtualization, security) with full-stack development (Node.js, PHP, Python, React) to run and scale complex production platforms. Matteo has led teams and built platforms from embedded ARM Linux and payment gateways to lab monitoring and agritech products, often owning both infra and app layers as CTO/technical lead. He contributes to open-source projects — notably improving CodeIgniter’s email attachment handling — and has a long track record automating backups, CDNs, queues and data stores (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis). Based in Camugnano, Italy, he pairs pragmatic engineering with operational discipline, frequently implementing low-level fixes that improve large-scale service reliability. Colleagues rely on him for systems that bridge physical devices and cloud services while keeping security and maintainability front and center.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ingegnere, Informatica, Ingegnere, Informatica at Università di PisaScientific degree, Science, Scientific degree, Science at Liceo ScientificoStatement of accomplishment, Startup Engineering, Statement of accomplishment, Startup Engineering at Stanford University
English, Italian, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
e-mail10
php-framework10
php10
documentation8
substring6
foreach6
shell6
linux6
bash6
sudo6
apidoc6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Matteo focused on enhancing the email functionality of the CodeIgniter framework. They added support for attaching string buffers to emails, which involved modifying the `Email` class to handle buffer attachments. This work also included adjusting the documentation to reflect these changes, ensuring that developers could easily utilize the new features. The contributions centered around improving the attachment handling capabilities within the email library of the framework.
phpframeworkphp-frameworkphp7php8
matteomattei/AspectCsAdjust
Dec 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:5 releases, 8 pushes, 5 tags in 3 years 9 months
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