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Stefano Virgulti

Senior Full Stack PHP Developer & Technical Product Manager

Meet me

20+ Years Bridging Legacy Systems and Product Strategy

What I love doing.

My experience allowed me to gather a lot of knowledge in many important topics

Project Management

Keeping priorities right and making clients happy is fueling challenge

Web Development

Knowledge of every layer of the stack is crucial to keep operations smooth

Marketing

Human behaviour psycology is a powerful aid to build the right solution

Tech stack.

The tools and languages I rely on to build and maintain solid web applications.

PHP & OOP/SOLID

Main language across most projects, from legacy refactoring to modern OOP/SOLID design, with PHPUnit test coverage

Laravel & Custom Frameworks

Building and refactoring business logic into Laravel APIs, plus custom in-house PHP frameworks

Vue.js Front-end

Improving user experience and delivering consistent UI components in Vue.js

WordPress & Drupal

State-of-the-art web solutions on WordPress and Drupal, with the ability to ramp up on new frameworks on demand

Database Design

Designing and maintaining tables, debugging and optimizing queries

Project & Product Management

Reverse engineering, roadmap planning and domain design across full project lifecycles

Projects.

A few open-source tools and write-ups from my own time.

PHP Typed Collections

A zero-dependency PHP library that enforces runtime type safety on arrays, with a full functional API for filtering, mapping, reducing and sorting.

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LinkForge

A Laravel URL shortener with concurrency-safe short codes, SSRF-hardened URL validation, and privacy-first click analytics.

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Webhook Dispatcher

A Laravel webhook delivery service with queued retries, HMAC-SHA256 signing, and a Domain-Driven Design architecture.

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Symfony Media API

A headless CMS API built with Symfony 8 and API Platform — declarative resources, JWT security, and custom state processors.

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Laravel RAG Pipeline

A Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline built in pure PHP with Laravel — pgvector similarity search and local LLMs via LM Studio, no Python required.

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EasyFit

A personal fitness tracker built with Laravel and Vue. Daily measurements with progress scoring, a meal catalog with calorie/protein and goals tracking.

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About me.

There is more about me than code. Here some of my passions.

Social causes

HelloEverybody!

The biggest and most active social group in Hilversum, to fight back loneliness.

Photography

Fluidlight

Capturing the essence of people through my portrait pictures.

Self improvement

Meditation & more

Knowledge and growing mindset are the key in these modern times.

Sport

Strength Training & Cardio

Taking care of our body and the habit of movement as the source of balance.

Getting in touch.

Want to reach me? Feel free to send me an email or connect on Linkedin