Ravan Scafi
Senior Staff Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRavan Scafi is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and improving developer tooling. He currently leads engineering efforts at Palo Alto Networks after senior backend roles at HelloFresh and Leroy Merlin, bringing strong expertise in scalable web architectures and test automation. An active open-source contributor, Ravan has improved stability and test coverage in the widely used Laravel Passport OAuth2 package, showing a focus on maintainability and security. He co-organized PHP and Laravel communities in São Paulo for nearly a decade, blending technical leadership with community evangelism. Known for pragmatic refactors and robust testing, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship to help teams ship durable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Computer Science Information Technology at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita FilhoTechnician Computer, Technician Computer at ETEC - Centro Paula Souza
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
passportjs10
oauth10
test-automation10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
html6
angular-material6
deserialization6
material-design6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/passport
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Laravel Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Ravan primarily contributed to fixing bugs, improving code quality, and enhancing test coverage for the Laravel Passport package. They addressed model relationships, performed code style fixes, and improved the mocking usage within the testing suite. Additionally, they refactored code, added tests for middleware, and updated controller classes to use Illuminate Response objects. These changes focused on enhancing the stability and maintainability of the OAuth2 server support.
phpauthenticationoauth2-serverpassportlaravel
leroy-merlin-br/mongolid-passport
Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
Mongolid Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel and Mongolid.
Contributions:4 reviews, 21 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 4 months
phpoauth2-serveroauth2laravelpassport
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