Senior Magento & Adobe Commerce Engineer

I engineer reliable Adobe Commerce systems from architecture to production.

I build and modernize business-critical Magento and Adobe Commerce platforms across module architecture, integrations, reporting, automation, and production delivery.

Evidence-led. QA-gated. Documented for the team that owns it next.

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Bran Orphiano, Senior Magento and Adobe Commerce Engineer
Bran Orphiano · Commerce Systems Engineer
Adobe Commerce· Magento 2· Hyvä· PWA / React· Integrations· Reporting· AI Workflows· QA Gates

For employers and commerce teams

Senior engineering ownership for complex commerce platforms.

I work across platform architecture, first-party modules, integrations, operational reporting, automation, and careful production delivery—especially where teams need both deep diagnosis and durable implementation.

Primary roles
Senior Magento Developer, Adobe Commerce Engineer, Backend Commerce Engineer
Strongest areas
PHP, Magento 2, Adobe Commerce, module architecture, integrations, SQL and operational reporting
Also useful for
Hyvä, React/PWA, cloud delivery, and AI-assisted engineering workflows
Timezone
Philippines (GMT+8), experienced in remote collaboration and written handoffs
Work style
Remote-first, evidence-led, QA-gated, clearly documented

Engineering Focus

Production Reliability
Business-critical commerce flows

Diagnose, stabilize, and harden order, payment, inventory, and checkout behavior using logs, database state, and API evidence.

Platform Modernization
First-party module ownership

Move legacy and third-party behavior into maintainable modules with clear service boundaries, upgrade paths, and regression coverage.

Integrations
Connected systems and trustworthy events

Design and verify ERP, payment, API, Pixel, and CAPI integrations, including payload quality and event deduplication.

Operational Data
Reporting teams can act on

Build order, sales, and inventory reporting plus admin data pipelines that make operational state visible.

Engineering Automation
Controlled AI-assisted workflows

Build agent tooling, approval routes, and knowledge systems with explicit decision boundaries and human control.

Admin Tooling
Workflow tools for commerce teams

Build B2B approval flows, custom admin interfaces, and recoverable operational workflows inside Magento.

Selected Work

Magento Shipped
Module Migration and Ownership Cleanup

A legacy checkout extension had grown into four interdependent modules with no clear owner and untested upgrade paths.

git diff class audit di.xml integration test
→ Clean first-party module. Regression-free upgrade path.
Adobe Commerce Catalog
Brickworks Multi-Brand Catalog Platform

A single Adobe Commerce instance powers many regional brand sites, product catalogs, sample requests, store lookup, and design-service journeys.

multi-site themes catalog Akeneo
→ Multi-brand catalog experience under one commerce platform.
Tracking Verified
Commerce Tracking Quality - Meta CAPI

Server-side CAPI events were duplicating against browser Pixel events, inflating reported conversions by ~35%.

API payload event match quality browser QA dedup log
→ Event match quality lifted from 4.2 to 7.8. Duplicates eliminated.
Operations Delivered
3PL Order Flow Architecture

A D2C brand's fulfilment flow had no documented handoff between commerce platform and 3PL, causing silent order failures.

order history status audit stakeholder map risk log
→ Evidence-backed integration plan delivered to dev team.

Evidence employers can scan

Engineering decisions backed by evidence.

Each example shows the system context, what I owned, the evidence I used, and how the result was verified.

Dependency map / implementation diff / regression checks
Adobe Commerce

Legacy module replacement without breaking checkout

Reworked fragile third-party checkout behavior into first-party module ownership, preserving current data contracts while reducing upgrade risk.

  • Audited dependencies, templates, DI configuration, and config paths.
  • Moved business logic out of templates and into focused services.
  • Verified checkout behavior before release with targeted regression checks.
Payload comparison / deduplication logs / before-and-after metric
Tracking

Meta CAPI event deduplication and quality repair

Investigated duplicated server and browser events, traced payload mismatches, and restored cleaner conversion reporting.

  • Compared browser Pixel events against server-side CAPI payloads.
  • Fixed event identifiers and validated deduplication behavior.
  • Improved event match quality from 4.2 to 7.8.
"Bran found the root cause in two hours when two other developers had spent a week on it."
- CTO, Client withheld
"He doesn't just fix it - he documents exactly what he found and why, so we understand what changed."
- Technical Lead, Adobe Commerce project

How I Work

  • 01 Evidence before assumptions - I check files, logs, DB rows, and API payloads before writing a line.
  • 02 Clear ownership per workstream - Each task has a defined objective, decision boundary, and handoff, even when several tracks run in parallel.
  • 03 Repo patterns first - I read the existing code before proposing a change.
  • 04 QA gates before release - Automated or manual - there is always a before and after check.
  • 05 Durable notes after the work - Every significant decision gets written down where the team can find it.
  • 06 Simple systems before platforms - The minimum that works reliably beats the maximum that almost works.

Systems Built

Knowledge System
Loki / Hepha

A private AI-assisted engineering memory and knowledge graph built across projects and clients.

Automation
Buddy

Phone-first Telegram-to-Codex bridge for approving and routing autonomous engineering tasks from an iPhone.

Personal Tool
Finance PWA

Local-first finance tracking with QA-gated phased delivery and no cloud dependency.

Dev Tooling
Magento Reporting Helpers

Reusable SQL and CLI tools for order, inventory, and tracking reporting in Adobe Commerce.

Need senior ownership for an Adobe Commerce platform?

I work with teams that need reliable architecture, integrations, operational visibility, and careful production delivery. View my background on LinkedIn or email me about a role or project.

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