Stefano Bagnara
Owner at Apache Software Foundation
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
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RockstarStefano Bagnara is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and entrepreneur with 14+ years running Void Labs and hands-on experience as an Apache Software Foundation committer. He specializes in PHP, JavaScript and Java, and designs SaaS architectures while handling sysadmin responsibilities across stacks involving Varnish, Hitch, Apache and MySQL on CentOS. Stefano combines rapid, impulse-driven development with attention to production robustness—evidenced by contributions that fixed CSS specificity and parsing bugs in the popular Automattic/juice project. He also improves front-end UX and responsiveness, as seen in work on the Mosaico email template editor. Based in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, he blends pragmatic operations skills with active open-source craftsmanship, often adding tests and refactors that reduce long-term maintenance burden.
14 years of coding experience
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charts
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
charts10
css10
user-interface10
html10
testing9
knockout9
html-template9
responsive-design9
email-templates9
svg9
emailjs9
e-mail8
nodejs8
send-email8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
voidlabs/mosaico
Jun 2015 - Nov 2022
Mosaico - Responsive Email Template Editor
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 532 commits, 71 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stefano's commits primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Mosaico project, an email template editor. The contributions included initial setup and implementation of UI elements, fixing issues, and improving the responsiveness of the user interface. The code changes indicate a focus on HTML structure, styling, and JavaScript interaction with the user interface.
email-templatetemplate-editormosaicoknockouthtml-email
Automattic/juice
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Juice inlines CSS stylesheets into your HTML source.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 6 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily focused on improving the `automattic/juice` repository, a tool for inlining CSS. Their contributions included refactoring the CSS parsing engine, switching from `cssom` to `mensch`. They addressed several bugs related to specificity, property order, and handling of multiple property declarations. Furthermore, they added test cases to validate the fixes and ensure the tool's robustness.
juicecssemailstylesheetsinline
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