Fabrizio Branca – Talking about Magento & living in the Bay Area

This is the last episode of the Zendcon 2015 series. And the term “last but not least” definitely applies here.

I had the pleasure of having a great conversation with Fabrizio Branca. Fabrizio was born in Italy, raised in Germany and currently lives in the Bay Area, near San Francisco. He is a well-respected member of the Magento community and has a bunch of Magento modules to his name.

It comes as no suprise that the main subject of our conversation was about Magento. We also put a lot of emphasis on Magento 2, which is out now. At the time of the interview it was still referred to as “the upcoming release”.

Fabrizio works for AOE, a German-based company that focuses on open source software. It was actually thanks to AOE that Fabrizio and his family were able to move to San Francisco. He started a team out there and has been living in the Bay Area for a number of years now. We talk about that as well.

Let’s have a look at the video

The video was still recorded at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, but it was at the event. So we were forced to have the conversation in the hallway. Hence the poor video quality.

Podcast

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