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Alberto Arena

@albertoarena

Senior Software Engineer at For Good Measure, maintaining Laravel assessment apps and a generative AI exam-question tool.

Italy

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for remote, full-time or fractional work (part-time, a few days a week for one company). I prefer teams in Central or Northern Europe, and I'm also open to teams in the US and Canada.

At For Good Measure Inc., I maintain and extend Laravel applications for an assessment platform, including a generative AI tool that drafts exam questions for human review. I work across the backend, Vue and Inertia UI, and AWS deployment.

I built Truss, an open-source live database structure viewer for Laravel that displays schemas as interactive ER diagrams. It has 54k Packagist installs and has been covered by Laravel News and Laravel Daily.

At Pernod Ricard (Irish Distillers), I was full-stack lead for the Midleton Distillery Collection and global Jameson brand Shopify sites, building third-party payments, logistics, and CRM integrations. I also bring an agentic Claude Code workflow to development: plan first, tests first, and I review every commit myself.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

For Good Measure Inc.

Jul 2026 - Present (4 months)

Maintain and extend Laravel applications for an assessment platform, including a generative AI tool that drafts exam questions for human review. Work across the backend, the Vue and Inertia UI, and AWS deployment.

Laravel Vue.Js Inertia AWS Generative AI

Senior Software Developer

Pernod Ricard (Irish Distillers)

Feb 2021 - Oct 2026 (5 years 8 months)

Full-stack lead for flagship Shopify e-commerce sites, including the Midleton Distillery Collection and the global Jameson brand site. Built frontend and backend work across Shopify, WordPress, Vue.js and AWS, and ran several projects at the same time.

Shopify WordPress Vue.Js AWS Ecommerce Integration AI Automation

Senior Software Developer

SafariOffice

May 2025 - Jun 2026 (1 year 1 month)

Designed and shipped a Stripe billing system for premium subscriptions, from the data model to the production launch. Architected the Laravel B2B SaaS platform from the ground up, including backend structure, domain models and API design.

Laravel Stripe Event Sourcing Claude Code API Design B2B SaaS

Senior Software Developer

Assessbank Examination Software

Jan 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Built and maintained full-stack features for TAO, an open-source assessment platform used by educational institutions around the world.

JavaScript Laravel Vue.Js AWS

Senior Software Developer

Educate

Apr 2015 - Feb 2021 (5 years 10 months)

Full-stack lead for Standards Tracker, a standards-management platform for UK schools, for almost six years. Built and maintained the PHP backend and the JavaScript frontend, and ran the infrastructure on AWS.

PHP JavaScript AWS Fullstack Development

Senior Developer

MMT Digital

Feb 2012 - Apr 2015 (3 years 2 months)

Agile web development across the stack: PHP (Zend, Slim), MySQL and MongoDB on the backend, AngularJS and jQuery on the frontend.

PHP Zend Slim MySQL MongoDB AngularJS jQuery

Web Developer

Freelance

Jan 2008 - Jan 2012 (4 years)

Freelance web development using PHP and JavaScript for clients in Italy, Dubai, Norway, the USA and Switzerland.

PHP JavaScript

Senior Developer

XNES

Jan 2004 - Jan 2008 (4 years)

Developed C++ data-entry applications and PHP and JavaScript web development.

C++PHP JavaScript

Founder and Developer

Irsita / Omega2000

Jan 2000 - Jan 2004 (4 years)

Founded and ran a software and data-entry company of around 20 people, first as Irsita and as Omega2000 from 2001. Developed C++ and Delphi applications, and OCR and ICR applications.

C++Delphi OCR ICR