Stefano Torresi
Software Engineering Manager at Kong Inc.
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolStefano Torresi is a pragmatic software engineering manager with over 15 years of hands-on development experience and more than five years leading high-performing teams across cloud-native and enterprise Linux domains. He has a track record of scaling teams, cutting voluntary attrition to zero, and turning greenfield initiatives into strategic MVPs while improving cross-team collaboration and delivery processes. A polyglot engineer who has contributed to notable open-source projects like Doctrine ORM and Zend Framework, he blends deep backend expertise with strong operational and testing discipline. Based in Catania, Sicily, Stefano pairs servant leadership and technical rigor to mentor engineers, overhaul legacy systems, and ship resilient infrastructure for mission-critical workloads. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to drive organizational change—designing hiring, planning, and knowledge-sharing practices that sustainably boost team performance.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Attestato professionale Web Design, Attestato professionale Web Design at Ente di formazione professionale A.N.F.E.Diploma di Maturità Scientific studies, Diploma di Maturità Scientific studies at Liceo Scientifico Statale Galileo GalileiComputer Science, Computer Science at Università di Catania
Italian, English
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Github Skills (17)
object-mapping10
http10
zend-framework10
abstraction10
php10
doctrine-orm10
orm10
data-abstraction10
testing9
unit-testing9
phpunit9
service-manager8
user-authentication7
authentication7
oauth6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 20 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the Zend Framework's HTTP method handling capabilities, adding the `HttpMethodListener` class and related service factory. Their work included implementing the logic to validate HTTP request methods and return appropriate HTTP responses (405 status code). The user also integrated the `HttpMethodListener` with the application's bootstrapping process and enhanced the password verification of Apache HTTP Basic Auth.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
doctrine/orm
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Doctrine Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stefano contributed to the Doctrine ORM project, primarily focusing on enhancing the handling of custom object types used as identifiers. Their work involved adding string casting to ID hashes, and creating and fixing tests for custom object types. They also updated the documentation, specifically addressing the use of custom object types as identifiers. Furthermore, they fixed tests tear down and copyright notices.
orm-object-relational-mapperrelationalmysqlphpdatabase
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