Matthieu Napoli
Founder at brefphp
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolMatthieu Napoli is a founder and principal software engineer with 14 years of experience helping teams scale PHP applications using serverless architectures. Creator of Bref and author of a serverless course, he blends hands-on backend engineering with DevOps pragmatism to simplify deploying PHP on AWS Lambda. He has driven product and open-source efforts at Serverless Framework and contributed widely to high-profile PHP projects like Doctrine, Slim, Matomo and PHP-DI, focusing on reliability, testing and developer ergonomics. As a former CTO and technical lead, he pairs architecture and team-building experience with rigorous quality practices (CI, testing, refactoring). Based in Lyon, he stands out for turning deep PHP expertise into tooling that lowers operational overhead for teams — often addressing obscure edge cases in plugin loading, variable resolution and container interoperability.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsMaster's degree in Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, Master's degree in Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
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Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
getlift/lift
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Expanding Serverless Framework beyond functions using the AWS CDK
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 releases, 119 reviews, 446 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthieu focused on improving the deployment process and handling various error cases within the Lift framework. They fixed resource naming issues and implemented better error handling mechanisms to improve the deployment experience. The user also contributed to the functionality of deploying static websites.
aws-cdkserverless-frameworkserverlessserverless-pluginaws
myclabs/php-enum
Jan 2013 - Dec 2022
The enum PHP is missing, inspired from SplEnum
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 15 reviews, 108 commits in 10 years
Contributions summary:Matthieu primarily contributed to the development of a PHP enum library. Their work included implementing the core enum class, adding functionality such as value retrieval, string conversion, and array representation of enum values. They also added support for static access and magic methods, improving the library's usability. Furthermore, they focused on code formatting, documentation, and making the library compatible with PHP 5.3.
phpenumphp-enum
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