I’m a freelance developer and consultant with 15 years of experience in e-commerce and complex applications.
I spent the best years of my life developing themes and extensions for Magento. I work with agencies on large, troubled projects, legacy codebases, technical debt, existing teams and help bring them back under control.
Toolbox
My main ecosystem is Javascript/Node, with PHP as a regular companion. I’ve strong experience in e-commerce that includes the use of REST APIs and GraphQL, the main search engines, integrations with payment systems and third-party services. I also work with headless and composable commerce architectures.
I really don’t have a favorite stack, I’m first and foremost a software developer. Languages and frameworks are just tools to achieve broader goals. However, I have worked with all the major javascript frameworks, Vue, React and Angular. In my toolbox I have Typescript, MongoDB, Docker, testing and CI/CD pipelines (not necessarily in that order) and more.
Services
My services include consulting, planning, technical and functional analysis, code reviews, mentoring, team management, legacy rescue, refactoring and, of course, coding and debugging.
Culture
I pay great attention to human relationships. I believe the long-term success of a project depends on how well the team stabilizes, not only the software technically, but also the people who work on it. Empowering junior developers and making them increasingly self-sufficient is essential, as is building a space of trust and collaboration where, when something goes wrong, everybody focuses on the solution and not on blame, and where people feel safe asking for help.
Freelancer by choice
I freelance because I want to, I’m not looking to work as a full-time employee. I have a few clients at a time and I choose them carefully, I love them all and I believe it’s mutual. I try to build long-lasting relationships based on trust and communication.
Open-source
In my daily work I use a lot of tools developed by other people, so I also try in my own small way to share some of the things I do. I built two tools in PHP for Final Cut users: Fast Titles and Final Cut to motion. I also built several modules for Magento, Hyvä and Hyvä React Checkout.
I also contribute to Vue Storefront, a really cool open-source project with a huge global community.
Blog
I like blogging around the web. Here is a selection of my posts outside of this blog.
- The problem of testing different versions of Safari on Browserstack (Wilma Digital)
- La compilazione del Less in Magento2 (Bitbull srl)
- Il pixel perfect è una cagata pazzesca (Il gatto ha nuove code)
- Test automatici in 0 minuti con Ghost Inspector (Bitbull srl)
- Stop wasting time with the stupid google page speed (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (Bitbull srl)
- Fast titles. Come importare sottotitoli in Final cut (Il gatto ha nuove code)
I should mention that while I regularly use AI in my development work to make it more efficient, I don’t use it in writing because I like to keep communication a human activity.
Public speaking
My very first public speaking experience.
Meet Magento Italy 2017 (photo by Lori Ramonda)
Do you want to hire me?
If you are interested in working with me write me an email at irene.iaccio@gmail.com or contact me through my social channels. Let’s have a coffee break together and see if we like each other.