Serena Piccioni

Hi, my name is Serena.
My job is Senior Developer, and I have over 20 years of experience in the digital and IT industry.

I started in 1998 by creating HTML pages and taking an ASP 3.0 course.
In 1999, I completed my first website based on ASP 3.0, Access and HTML, and then worked as a Webmaster for some web agencies.
In 2007, I did my first PHP project; in 2008, I built a business website based on WordPress.

I work mainly with WordPress; my primary skills are PHP, Databases, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Because I love WordPress and Open Source, I developed two WordPress plugins, WP INCI, Site Toolkit and Comments Subscriber. I also made a speech at WordCamp Milan 2019 about How to develop themes with Timber and Twig (Italian) and one at WordCamp Verona 2023 about Block Editor tricks for lazy people.

Information Architecture • Problem Solving • User Experience • Web Development • E-commerce • Web Project Management • User Interface • Web Applications

PHP (Python, Perl) • JavaScript, CSS, HTML • GIT and SVN • Bootstrap, SOAP, REST • WordPress, Django (Zend2, Symfony2, Laravel) • MySQL, Apache (Nginx) • Linux (Ubuntu and CentOS), AWS, CircleCI

Education

WP DEVELOPMENT COURSES: BUILDING CUSTOM BLOCKS, Teach:able, 2023

November 2023, “A masterclass for WordPress professionals that want to master custom block development“

ADVANCED PHP, TRAINING DRAGON, LONDON (UK), 2016

21 – 24 March 2016, a four-day course about Advanced PHP web programming, including OOP, MVC, and introduction to MVC framework (with course completion certificate).

RAILS GIRLS MILAN, WCAP ACCELERATOR, MILAN (ITALY), 2013

14 and 15 November 2013, a two-day course about Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

LEARNING DRUPAL: GLOBAL TRAINING DAY, WELLNET S.R.L., MILAN (ITALY), 2012

14 September 2012, a one-day course about the structure and functionalities of Drupal.

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (SL-275), SUN MICROSYSTEMS ITALIA, MILAN (ITALY), 2005

The Java Programming Language course provides students with a solid foundation for programming with Java, including information about the syntax of the Java programming language; object-oriented programming with the Java programming language; creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), exceptions, file input/output (I/O), and threads; and networking.

EUROPEAN COMPUTER DRIVING LICENCE (ECDL), UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE, MILAN (ITALY), 2004

ECDL is the International standard in digital skills certification; I am certified in all the standard modules.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING AT ISOPIA INC., TORONTO, ONTARIO (CANADA), 2000

13 and 14 November 2000 (with course completion certificate).

LAUREA IN FILOSOFIA, UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE, MILAN (ITALY), 1998

Thesis title: I software didattici multimediali: una ricognizione critica (Multimedia educational software: a critical analysis), 197 pages. This is a formal 4-year degree (which usually takes at least 5 to complete) followed by a research thesis; its best approximation in the UK would be Bachelor plus Master (3+2).

Teaching and publications

Franco Angeli

2000

I developed (programming and graphics) the CD-ROM distributed with the book Software per l’apprendimento (Software for learning), Franco Angeli, Milano, in Macromedia Director.
I was directly involved in the IRRE Lombardia research with the schools.

Work Experience

BBC Studios

Senior Software Engineer

02/2025 – present

London, United Kingdom

BBC Studios is a global media company borne of the BBC.

We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after content as well as creating and nurturing iconic brands.

The BBC’s mission is to inform, educate, and entertain everyone and our commercial mindset is driven by our public service values. Our commercial success means that the profits that we generate go back into the BBC to support our purpose in the UK, and we believe we can have a similar positive impact in the creative industries and in the wider world.

WordPress • PHP • MySQL • Git • JavaScript • React.js • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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