Michel Petiton
Senior Manager at Lurse
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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SeniorMichel Petiton is a senior engineering leader based in Frankfurt with 12 years of experience guiding teams from hands-on development to departmental leadership. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at CHECK24 before stepping into senior management at Lurse, combining people leadership with strong delivery focus. A pragmatic back-end developer and QA-minded engineer, he has contributed to the official Zend Framework by improving input-filter behavior and adding robust unit tests—demonstrating attention to framework correctness and test-driven quality. Known for preferring straightforward, no-nonsense collaboration (and politely skipping business dinners), he blends deep PHP/framework expertise with operational leadership to ship reliable systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
zend-framework10
php10
test-driven-design10
input-validation10
testing10
exception-handling9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:21 commits, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michel primarily focused on updating and testing the Zend Framework's input filter component. They added functionality to recursively reset validation groups and implemented exception handling. Furthermore, the user wrote several unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of these changes, including tests for invalid argument exceptions and recursively resetting validation groups. Their work involved both modifying core framework code and writing tests to validate the changes, ensuring the robustness of the input filter functionality.
zend-framework
demichl68/duck-pony
Mar 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:14 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
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