CEO Robert Giovannini discovered the value of eCommerce when his business of selling custom-made chess sets exploded through the online channel he built using the Magento platform.
Subsequent work building sites for friends and word-of-mouth clients was the start of the IronPlane agency. Over the next 12 years, Bob carefully built his team of highly skilled Magento designers, developers, and solutions specialists to meet the needs of his growing client list.
IronPlane is a global expert and recognized name in Magento eCommerce. We are always exploring new avenues to transform and improve commerce.
Whether you are building a new store, or need to improve and upgrade your existing one, we are passionate about using the right technologies to help you reach your business goals.
CEO, IronPlane USA Headquarters
While in Russia in 1999 Robert met some amazing artists creating handmade chess sets. To help sell these, he created his first eCommerce website. When orders began to come in from around the world, he realized this was a great opportunity to explore.
Between 1999 and 2012 he built and developed several eCommerce and digital service companies. In 2012, he co-founded IronPlane, a full-service Magento website development agency. Robert works with clients to find the right investment balance in technology to help maximize return on investment.
When not working, he is generally in his shop making furniture or off traveling with his family.
CEO, Snow.Dog Europe Headquarters
Project Administrator
Donna joined IronPlane in May 2017. She drafts client contracts, assists with onboarding, and handles client invoicing, time reporting, and much more along with a wide variety of operational responsibilities.
Donna’s passion in life is anything bagpipes. She’s been a piper and piping teacher for over 30 years. She’s from Connecticut and has lived in Maine and Niagara Falls, Ontario, but finally had enough of the cold and now lives in Florida.
Director of Engagement
Tim is a former eCommerce director, with expertise in online business strategy, digital marketing, and operations technology. As IronPlane's Director of Engagement, he works closely with prospective clients and internal teams to ensure the optimal fit between client needs and services delivered.
HubSpot Academy Solutions Partner Certified
Director of Operations
While earning an MIS degree from University of Houston, Damian started working as a freelance Magento developer. His first Magento site was launched back in 2009 on version 1.3!
Since joining IronPlane in 2015, Damian has served as a Project Manager and Director for over 120 new builds and rescues. He is certified as an Adobe/Magento Solution Specialist and AWS Cloud Practitioner.
Damian now calls Zurich, Switzerland home. Apart from raising his three kids, he spends his free time cycling, sim racing, and building Legos.
Adobe Certified Expert-Adobe Commerce Business Practitioner
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Solution Architect, Head of Snowdog PM Department
Michal joined Snowdog over 9 years and tens of projects ago and has spent most of that time in the position of Head of PM Department. He organizes the Snowdog team's work, helps it grow, plans resources, and advises others to avoid problems before they appear. He manages discoveries and workshops with customers, prepares the project implementations, and watches over the delivery process.
Michal earned a Magento 1 Solution Specialist certificate and was among the first group of people in the world to pass the Magento 2 certification. He calls himself a family person, a keen traveler, a photographer, and an ultra runner.
Senior Frontend Developer & A11y Leader
UX/UI Specialist – Brand Manager
Clara originally trained as a scientist, earning a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. She brought her skills in research and analysis to Snowdog in 2018, where she began as a branding manager and later UX specialist. She has since been creating and improving customer experiences of eCommerce, retail, and novel digital projects while building Snowdog’s UX & Design team.
Clara is now Head of the UX & Design department based in Poznań, Poland. In her free time, she likes cooking new recipes, taking long road trips, and hiking.
Project Manager
Diego had been working in IT roles for more than 15 years when he joined IronPlane, including five years in eCommerce. He enjoys working in multi-culture, multi-timezone projects, allowing him to be in contact with people around the world.
During weekends you will find him making "asados" for family and friends, and participating in outdoor activities. He says he’s also a bad (but a very passionate!) basketball player.
Senior Magento Backend Developer
Emanuele joined the web developing world in 2001 and worked on different kinds of technologies/platforms; then he approached Magento in 2012, when it was still on version 1. Since the beginning, he has worked on large Magento implementations with external system integrations.
Emanuele has a lot of hobbies. He likes music and playing piano (he loves jazz) and making electronic circuits (Arduino and so on). He's also a licensed radio amateur.
Emanuele joined Snowdog in 2020, and says it's the best environment/team where he has worked and where he's still continuing learning!
Adobe Certified Professional—Adobe Commerce Developer
Project Manager
Eugene had 10+ years of experience in managerial positions before joining IronPlane and worked in non-IT companies like ABI (beverage company), where he had a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project. After that, he changed his focus to IT since it was a much more flexible environment with more room for personal growth, and he likes it very much.
Eugene enjoys snowboarding, bicycle riding, and many other active sports (he played on the basketball team in high school).
Senior Magento Backend Developer
Federico has been coding software since 2003 using various technologies and platforms. Since 2014, he's been working almost exclusively in the Magento space. He earned his Magento Associate Developer Certification in 2019 and has collaborated with the community as much as possible, including making contributions to the Magento core and organizing Mugar meetups (https://www.mugar.io).
Federico is interested in developing engaging eCommerce solutions that deliver great value to customers and users. He's always looking for ways to improve development processes and techniques to deliver high quality software.
Senior Magento Frontend Developer
Gabriela has served the eCommerce market through her role as a Certified Adobe Commerce/Magento2 Developer since 2016. With more than 15 years of media and marketing background, she has helped many merchants to achieve their online sales and goals in industrial, agro, and distribution sectors.
Besides coding, Gabriela loves dogs, yoga, playing guitar, and cooking.
Head of Projects
Jared has worked on a wide variety of Magento/Adobe projects for the past 7 years, ranging from small monthly maintenance projects to massive, custom migrations for Fortune 500 companies. He loves being presented with challenges businesses aren't sure how to solve and helping guide them through potential solutions to determine a clear path forward. The more complexities a project involves, the more he enjoys it.
In Jared’s free time, he loves playing ultimate frisbee and woodburning!
Senior Magento Backend Developer
At Snowdog, the thing I like the most about my job is the amazing team we have in the company, it doesn't matter what role we play, we are all friendly and have a warm contact which is more similar to a family than a classic company structure. This leads to great knowledge sharing, we all learn from each other.
In my free time, I like practicing sports, I love climbing mountains and practicing snorkeling as well as traveling and meeting with people. 🍻
Project Manager
Kristin came to IronPlane with a longtime real estate and customer service background, as well as being a former restaurant owner. She has been involved with IronPlane since 2015 in one capacity or another!
Kristin is certified in Sales, Product, and Technical aspects of BigCommerce.
Kristin is a lifelong Mainer and loves living near the coast. When she’s not busy working or raising her three teenagers, she enjoys cooking and running, and is an avid reader.
Partnership Coordinator
After graduating with a BA in Human Biology and an MS in Biology from Stanford University, Liz ventured into the world of tech, starting her career as a Salesforce consultant at Accenture. Since her stint in consulting, she’s held positions in customer success, operations, and partnerships at health insurance, martech, and last-mile delivery companies. Liz is passionate about helping businesses evangelize their products and services through strategic partnerships and exceptional copywriting.
In her free time, Liz volunteers at Seed Consulting Group, writes for the Boring Startup Stuff newsletter, and hikes all over SoCal.
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Magento Backend Developer
Loc joined our team with 8+ years of professional experience. He's a Certified Professional Magento developer who takes pride in being customer-value oriented, always searching for the best working solutions for client businesses. He has mostly worked in eCommerce and his main expertise is with Magento, having worked with the platform from Magento 1 to the latest version, including Community, Enterprise, and Cloud versions.
Loc's strong point is that he has worked with various Magento extensions and 3rd party solutions such as shipping, payments, and 3rd party warehouses.
Project Manager
Magento Backend Developer
When Mikhail joined IronPlane in 2022, he had been a Magento developer for about 8 years. Most of his experience is backend, but he's also handled a variety of frontend assignments. During a recent Magento development trip, he took part in a large number of interesting projects, which is his way of saying he really enjoys the work he's doing.
During Mikhail's free time, he plays metal on his guitars, has a journey, or just eats.
Senior Magento Frontend Developer
Paweł started his journey with web development in 2010. At first, he worked mostly as a full stack developer, but in 2015 joined the Snowdog team where he has focused his interest on frontend for now. On a daily basis, he works with the Magento platform as a monolith (Alpaca and Hyva theme) and creates headless applications based on Vue.js. He’s also a frontend team leader.
Paweł tries to keep a healthy lifestyle and practices some sports. He likes playing football (watching as well), squash, and exercising in the gym. Apart from that, he’s a husband and father of one. He likes spending free time with his family close to nature and is addicted to traveling and exploring the world.
Adobe Certified Expert-Adobe Commerce Front-End Developer
DevOps
Rodrigo is Brazilian, married, and living in Balneário Camboriú, a city with beautiful beaches and the tallest buildings in the southern hemisphere. He’s been a Linux user for 26 years and has worked implementing new internet providers, with IT audits in all ports and airports in Brazil, in addition to having created robust infrastructures for several large e-commerces in Brazil and Latin America, such as Asus, Ipanema, and Havan.
Rodrigo is a security enthusiast, a licensed ham radio (PU5JPJ), and loves to invent new devices using Arduindo, Raspberry Pi, and LoraNet. He’s also a sport shooting practitioner and volunteer rescuer.
Magento Backend Developer
Roman is a developer with 10+ years of experience in eCommerce and web development in PHP and JS. He started his career in 2008 on the osCommerce platform, and since 2010 he's been working with Magento projects.
Roman has also worked with other PHP frameworks, including Zend, Symfony, and Yii, and with JS frameworks/libraries like jQuery, Prototype, Knockout, Underscore.js, and RequireJS. He also had non-commercial experience with Python in his pet projects.
QA Tester
Sergey had been doing software testing for more than 10 years when he joined the IronPlane team. He enjoys learning new testing technologies, testing tools, and everything else related to the IT world. He taught a course on basic automated testing at Telesens Academy in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
When he’s not working, Sergey spends time with his wife Mila, their child Mira, and Richard, their Abyssinian cat. He enjoys playing guitar and taking kayak trips for several days in the summer (bonfires, barbecues, and guitar).
Project Manager
Shawn was introduced to Magento in 2017 while working as a Digital Account Strategist when her agency partnered with IronPlane on a custom Magento build. Working with the guidance and support of the massively talented IronPlane team was the inspiration that eventually led her to choose eCommerce and Magento Project Management as her primary focus, and she joined the IronPlane team for good in 2021.
Since then, Shawn has worked on new store builds, UX/UI design, Magento upgrades, and custom feature development and integrations. She's probably best known amongst her colleagues for her ... very thorough ... style of documentation. Her motto is: "Why say it with 2 words when I can use 200?"
When she's not writing project notes, you can find her at the beach, in the woods, or on a mountain somewhere around Freeport, Maine, where she lives with her husband and dog, NaNook.
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Magento Frontend Developer
Taras joined the team in 2022 at 33 years of age and lives in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine. His technical experience includes various frontend technologies and he's continuing to develop his knowledge in the Magento Frontend and JS Frameworks.
Magento Full Stack Developer
Thanh started coding in 2012 with Magento 1. He started with a backend developer position, but eventually decided to become a full stack developer. His goal is pleasure from his clients.
Besides working, Thanh likes traveling, chilling with his friends, and enjoying good food.
Head of Development
Thiago is passionate about software development. He’s a great team player who believes that teamwork is much more effective than individual work.
Thiago loves life in nature, gardening, and building small cabins.
We are a certified Magento Enterprise Level partner. (Magento Support Agency)
We have approximately
30 developers on staff specializing in front end, back end, and integrations.
Our lead developer has been named a Magento Master by Magento 5 times.
We sponsor the Magento Imagine conference.
We are on the board of the Meet Magento Association.
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