Mirco Babini
Co-founder E CTO at Paid Memberships Pro
Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolMirco Babini is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with 14 years of experience building web and mobile applications, e-commerce platforms, and VR entertainment experiences from concept to production. Based in Lugo, Italy, he leads Babini Mazzari, a European IT consultancy that operates multiple specialized brands for API billing, full-remote support, and bespoke WordPress/e-commerce development. A WordPress and back-end specialist comfortable across NodeJS, Electron and embedded systems like Arduino, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as Paid Memberships Pro, improving payment integrations and core back-end logic. He also advises and builds hardware-software simulator products with Megasim and mixed-reality experiences at Paperpixels, blending mechanical design with 3D and game logic. Known for pragmatic refactoring and payment gateway expertise, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic product leadership for both enterprise clients and consumer entertainment. Unexpectedly, alongside technical roles he has engaged in community-focused work around gluten-free food education, reflecting a broad interest in practical, people-centered impact.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale Computer Science, Laurea triennale Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
634reputation
230kreached
15answers
2questions
Github Skills (17)
paypal10
back-end-development10
wordpress10
php10
api10
mysql9
commerce8
ecommerce8
androidannotations6
alarmmanager6
wordpress-rest-api6
broadcast-receiver6
google-drive-api6
gmail6
android6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
strangerstudios/paid-memberships-pro
Oct 2013 - Dec 2022
The Trusted Membership Platform That Grows with You: Restrict access to content and charge recurring subscriptions using Stripe, PayPal, and more. Fully open source. 100% GPL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 196 commits, 177 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mirco primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Paid Memberships Pro plugin, with a focus on enhancing and refactoring existing functionalities. Their commits involved implementing custom order filters, refactoring IPN (Instant Payment Notification) debugging logic, and adding a currency. The user also contributed to the PayPal Express gateway by implementing getTransactionStatus and creating a method to recover the real payment transaction ID.
stripeecommercepaypalsubscriptionwordpress
mircobabini/wp-hook-sniffer
Jul 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year
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