Simone Gentili
Ambassador at Self-employed
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolSimone Gentili is an accomplished web developer and content creator with over 14 years of professional experience and more than 20 years active in the internet industry, blending deep PHP roots with modern stacks like React, Node.js and Go. Based in Bologna, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as Yii2, where he’s fixed core bugs and improved framework consistency, and he enjoys exploring testing and TDD practices. As an ambassador for Il Libro Open Source and a community founder and speaker, he pairs public-facing teaching—YouTube videos, conference talks and writing—with hands-on backend work. Simone moves comfortably between legacy LAMP systems and contemporary frontend frameworks, often demonstrating concepts through short, approachable videos and katas. He’s as much a developer and reviewer as a storyteller about code, and he brings a pragmatic, community-oriented approach to engineering and mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaScuola Media Superiore "Blaise Pascal"Scuola elementare di San Carlo Eligio Cacciaguerra
Stackoverflow
20,884reputation
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326answers
260questions
php
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git
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symfony
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Github Skills (20)
yii10
debug10
maintenance10
app-framework10
php10
php-framework10
code-cleanup10
web-framework10
git9
symfony9
database-management9
fast-forward6
gitconfig6
git-merge6
git-pull6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
yiisoft/yii2
May 2013 - Oct 2013
Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simone contributed to the Yii2 framework by fixing bugs, merging pull requests, and improving code consistency. Their work involved modifying core framework files, including database and component classes, to address issues related to transaction handling, behavior attachment, and query building. The commits also included documentation updates and improvements to the menu widget.
secureprofessionalchinese-simplifiedyiiphp
sensorario/engine
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
A template engine
Contributions:14 PRs, 80 pushes, 22 branches in 8 months
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