Nicola Saliu
Engineering Manger at Shopware
Italy
Summary
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RockstarNicola Saliu is an engineering manager based in Italy with over a decade of experience building and leading backend teams for web and commerce platforms. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP, JavaScript, C#, and cloud tooling (AWS, Docker) with leadership roles at Shopware and MotorK, progressing from senior engineer to Head of Engineering. A pragmatic contributor to open-source—working on Shopware 6 and enhancing laravel-elasticsearch with AWS support—he focuses on reliable APIs, test automation, and deployable developer tooling. Nicola’s career blends long-term product ownership with operational improvements, from implementing feature-flag testing to adding Elasticsearch index management commands. Known for bridging engineering and DevOps concerns, he excels at turning legacy systems into maintainable, cloud-ready services.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
console10
laravel-mix10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
laravel10
phpunit10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
symfony10
command-line10
symfony-ux10
elasticsearch10
shopware10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mailerlite/laravel-elasticsearch
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
An easy way to use the official Elastic Search client in your Laravel applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicola primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the `laravel-elasticsearch` library by introducing new console commands. Their contributions included adding commands for checking index existence, creating, and deleting indices, and managing aliases. Furthermore, the user implemented support for AWS session tokens within the Elasticsearch configuration, demonstrating a focus on deployment and integration with cloud environments. These changes indicate a focus on expanding the tool's capabilities and making it more adaptable to various environments.
elasticsearch-clientphpsearch-enginelaravel-elasticsearch
shopware/shopware
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 1.500 community extensions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 1 issue in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicola primarily contributed to the Shopware 6 platform by implementing features and fixing bugs related to PHP code. Their work focused on the core framework, specifically the feature flag extension. They added the ability to add test namespaces and refactored the existing code to allow for this. The user also worked on updating API usage. Additionally, they worked on testing the FeatureFlagExtension and updated the test for the OAuth ClientRepository.
ecommerceshopwareapifirstshopping-cartvue
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