Full Stack Developer Guido Scialfa

In this article, we want to introduce Guido Scialfa, our Full Stack Developer. When Guido joined our agency as a WordPress Engineer in December 2017, we asked him a few questions to get to know him a little better.

This is Guido Scialfa

Guido Scialfa is 34 years old and lives in Sicily, Italy.

Tell us something about yourself …

I always loved to sketch since I was a kid, I’ve got a degree in graphic design. But when I met the code, ya, it was a love at first sight. I’m attracted by the big names of the open-source world and what open source means for the people and for the future of all of us. When I was at the university I came into contact with WordPress and, I don’t know what it was. But I was convinced that WordPress would be my way. So I left the university and spent a year studying web design and WordPress in depth.

Searching for Challenges

After a year and a few months, I got my first real job at an agency as a customer service operator (yeah that guy behind the support). One year later I quit to go to a web agency where I could express my attitude to design and the passion for code as well. But you know what? After a couple of months, I got stuck in a loop, doing the same thing every day, every week every month without any improvement.

So, despite my wallet, I decided to quit again and started a new journey as a freelancer. I had the opportunity to work on some amazing projects, where I was the one who created both, the design and the code. The best project I worked on during that period was a directory/listings theme for theme forest from scratch. I learned a lot with that project, a lot about me, about the quality of my work and the quality of the code I wanted to produce. I like spending hours to improve some of the code written during the day, resolving a little bug or just cleaning the code a little bit to make it more accessible to other developers.

Guido’s way to Syde

But even the better projects started to be monotonous at some point. And when I had the opportunity to be a part of Syde, the agency behind BackWPup and MultilingualPress, I applied immediately. I like being part of ISyde, I like the transparency and the way to be with each other. They welcomed me like a new family member. At Syde I work on BackWPup, a plugin that allows website owners to sleep worry-free as the plugin makes reliable backups of WordPress websites.

When I’m not coding, I study to know how to code better and when I don’t study I read manga, watch a series or an anime or cook some Japanese dish with my beautiful girlfriend. I’m deeply grateful to her, she supports my journey becoming a developer a lot.

Questions to Syder Guido

We asked Guido a few personal questions to give you the chance to get to know him better.