Marco Pivetta
Senior Consultant at Roave
Umbria, Italy
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Marco Pivetta is a senior PHP consultant and software architect with 15+ years of experience helping companies design and maintain complex, data-intensive applications across Doctrine ORM, Zend/Laminas and modern PHP ecosystems. As an independent consultant and long-time member of the Roave consortium, he blends hands-on backend engineering with architectural leadership, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as BetterReflection, Doctrine, Psalm and Ramsey/uuid. He’s known for improving static analysis, reflection and code-generation tooling, and for hardening libraries with immutability, type hints and performance-minded refactors. Based in Umbria, Italy, Marco also teaches and mentors—he authored courses for Zend Technologies—and quietly influences PHP best practices through numerous tooling and security-advisory contributions.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Università degli Studi di PadovaSEO and Web MarketingMaturity, Physics, Maths, Biology, Information Technology, Maturity, Physics, Maths, Biology, Information Technology at Liceo Scientifico Statale Michelangelo Grigoletti di Pordenone
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Github Skills (142)
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testing10
plugin-development10
command-line-interface10
databases10
reflection-api10
swagger10
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symfony-console10
refactor10
phpunit10
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/instantiator
Aug 2014 - Oct 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 91 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the core logic of the Instantiator library, focusing on the implementation of the `Instantiator` class. They implemented the initial instantiation logic using `unserialize` and subsequently optimized the instantiation process by leveraging `newInstanceWithoutConstructor` where possible, caching instantiators and cloneable instances for performance gains. The user also added and tested various assets to ensure the library could handle different class types, including internal and serializable classes and extended internal classes.
Ocramius/PackageVersions
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
:package: Composer addon to efficiently get installed packages' version numbers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 6 reviews, 346 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of an installer component for the `ocramius/packageversions` repository. Their contributions focused on setting up the core functionality for generating and dumping version class information. Additionally, they made modifications to the build process and deployment scripts. These changes involved debugging and implementing various functionalities to support the software's installation and operational aspects.
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