Stefano Magni
Senior Front-end Engineer, Tech Lead - Design System (remotely) at Plannix
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolStefano Magni is a Senior Front-end Engineer and Tech Lead specializing in React and TypeScript with nine years of experience shaping large, high-impact codebases and design systems. He thrives on untangling technical debt and enabling product teams by adapting contribution models, governance, and retro-compatible component libraries—recently driving Preply’s design system through a company-wide rebrand. Stefano pairs hands-on engineering (notably improving Hasura’s console tests and E2E reliability) with mentorship, teaching, and public speaking as a Cypress Ambassador and frequent instructor. Comfortable leading remote teams, he balances pragmatism and rigor in testing strategies, developer experience, and scalable architecture. Beyond shipping features, he invests in developer workflows and learning-in-public, publishing tooling and guidance that make long-lived front-end systems easier to maintain.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Communication design, Bachelor's degree Communication design at Politecnico di MilanoHigh School Diploma Informatic technologies, High School Diploma Informatic technologies at ITIS Badoni
Italian, English
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Github Skills (23)
cypress10
testing10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
react-redux9
react-hooks9
puppeteer9
redux-thunk9
graphql8
wordpress-graphql8
wpgraphql8
opentelemetry7
automated-tests6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hasura/graphql-engine
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 44 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily focused on enhancing the console's front-end functionality. They were involved in refactoring and unifying E2E tests related to Mutation and Query Actions, improving the testing strategy. The user also updated Cypress to version 10 and addressed various issues in the E2E tests, including fixes for frequent errors, the introduction of OpenTelemetry components, and handling of dropdown triggers. Their work improved the reliability and maintainability of the testing infrastructure.
realtimefine-grained-access-controlgraphql-serversql-serverhaskell
NoriSte/ui-testing-best-practices
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
The largest UI testing best practices list (last update: March 2023)
Contributions:31 reviews, 101 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 9 months
testingpuppeteercypressupdatee2e-testing
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