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Webakery

Baking websites since 2000.

Massimiliano Rosorani, front-end developer. Fully remote since 2021, working from Italy in CET.

Twenty-five years of front-end work: brand sites seen worldwide, data-heavy applications, and markup kept clean and accessible.

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Experience

Dublin

From 2008

Dublin, Ireland, until 2021. Since then fully remote.

  1. 2017–2026

    Dublin, then remote from Italy

    Pernod Ricard

    Front-End and WordPress Developer

    • Front-end lead on a portfolio of whiskey brand websites, some with worldwide visibility and millions of visits, working alongside other developers
    • Able to run projects end-to-end, from a finished design through to final production launch
    • Delivered across multiple stacks, primarily Symfony and WordPress
    • Drove accessibility work (WCAG audits and fixes), identifying and fixing the most serious issues
    • WordPress
    • Symfony
    • PHP
    • Gutenberg
    • ACF
    • React
    • Bootstrap
    • CSS
    • WCAG
    • Shopify
    • AWS

  2. 2015–2017

    Dublin

    Creme Global

    Front-End Developer

    • Built an online dietary intake tool, foodbook24.com (AngularJS v1, Bootstrap)
    • Built probabilistic pesticide-exposure estimation platform, caresng.cremeglobal.com (AngularJS v1, Bootstrap)
    • Collaborated on a large JS application backed by a RESTful API, used by premium clients such as FDA and Nestlé
    • Built excel-like grids, wizards and multi-step questionnaires
    • AngularJS
    • Bootstrap
    • Angular Material
    • REST API
    • JavaScript

  3. 2012–2014

    Dublin

    Paddy Power

    Web Developer

    • R&D on front-end performance for paddypower.com
    • Built live.paddypower.com with AngularJS v1 and WebSockets in an agile team
    • Launched paddypower.it (TCL/TK templates, legacy CSS)
    • Built the paddypower.it registration form (later ported to paddypower.com) with a custom jQuery tooltip script, working closely with UX and Business
    • AngularJS
    • WebSockets
    • PHP
    • CodeIgniter
    • Sass
    • Compass
    • jQuery
    • PHPUnit

  4. 2009–2011

    Dublin

    Neworld Associates

    Web Developer

    • Sole developer; built a lightweight, reusable CMS in Microsoft ASP
    • Full front-end and back-end delivery, from PSD to production
    • Set up and customised WordPress and Joomla sites
    • ASP
    • PHP
    • YII
    • WordPress
    • Joomla

  5. 2008–2009

    Dublin

    Visrez

    Front-End Developer

    • Sliced PSD to cross-browser HTML for major Irish hotels (Citywest, O'Callaghan, Palmerstown, Finnstown and others), tested across all main browsers
    • Designed and sliced newsletter templates
    • Built CSS/JS (PrototypeJS) skins for a Ruby on Rails booking engine
    • Edited templates on the Shopify platform; simple Flash animations
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • PrototypeJS
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Email templates
    • Shopify
    • Flash

Italy

2000–2008

Marche, central Italy.

  1. 2000–2008

    Fabriano, Jesi, Senigallia

    Web designer and developer

    • Built and maintained a proprietary e-commerce platform for food, dental and health products, with credit-card payments (Datamarche).
    • More than 50 front-end skins on a proprietary ASP and XSL content system, and W3C AAA accessibility for public-service sites (Creso).
    • Ran a freelance practice with a direct client base: small PHP CMS-based applications and HTML/PHP sites (WebStandards).
    • Websites and web graphics for bank and e-commerce clients (Lykonos).
    • 2006–2008 WebStandards Self-Employed (web design, development, marketing)
    • 2004–2006 Creso Web Developer
    • 2000–2004 Datamarche Web Developer
    • 2000 Lykonos Web Designer
    • JavaScript
    • E-commerce
    • ASP
    • XSL
    • PHP
    • CSS
    • Accessibility
    • IIS
    • MS SQL Server
    • HTML
    • CMS
    • Web design

Side project

Ongoing

Solo

Webakery Apps

A set of personal apps built solo, recently with AI assistance: recipes, guitar chords and songs. A Laravel REST API sits behind a Vue.js front end, which rescales the ingredient quantities of a recipe as the portion changes. Not open to the public yet.

  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • Pinia
  • REST API

Skills

Front-end
HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Bootstrap, Foundation, Angular Material Design, jQuery, responsive design, WCAG, performance optimisation, technical SEO
JS frameworks
AngularJS (v1), JavaScript, React, Vue.js, Pinia, WebSockets
Back-end
PHP, Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter, WordPress, Node.js (npm), REST API integration
Testing
Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Protractor, PHPUnit
Tooling & workflow
Git, CVS, Mercurial, Grunt, Bower, Webpack, Vite, npm, Composer, Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Bitbucket, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, automated deployments
AI-assisted development
Claude Code, Claude Code skills, AI pair programming, LLM-assisted workflows
Languages
Italian (native speaker), English (professional working proficiency), Portuguese (Brazilian) (limited working proficiency (lived in Brazil))

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