Albert Lluveras
Code Wrangler at Automattic
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Lluveras is a seasoned front-end and JavaScript engineer with over a decade of experience building polished, accessible UIs and leading teams at Automattic. Based in Barcelona, he has driven modernization efforts for WooCommerce—contributing to high-profile projects like Gutenberg, WooCommerce Blocks, and the admin analytics UI—while also shipping core front-end features and tests. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor and squad lead, he blends deep React expertise with hands-on work across PHP and tooling to bridge frontend and backend needs. A longtime open-source collaborator, his contributions range from lazy-loading image components to refining ServerSideRender and FormTokenField accessibility in Gutenberg. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, user-focused improvements and for mentoring teams through complex UI transitions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus stay, Computer Science, Erasmus stay, Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke University MagdeburgBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Catalan, Spanish, English, German
Stackoverflow
444reputation
132kreached
23answers
4questions
Github Skills (29)
woocommerce10
javascript10
react-components10
ui-components10
testing10
jes10
wordpress10
css10
react-component10
php10
lazy-loading10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
gutenberg10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Aljullu/react-lazy-load-image-component
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
React Component to lazy load images and components using a HOC to track window scroll position.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 7 reviews, 116 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the development of a React component for lazy loading images and other components. Their initial commits established the basic functionality for lazy loading, including placeholder rendering and viewport detection. Subsequent contributions added features like custom placeholders, callback functions for before/after load events, and support for horizontal scrolling. They also refactored code and implemented testing.
positionintersection-observerserver-side-renderingreactjsreact-performance
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 1211 reviews, 808 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the development of the WooCommerce Blocks project by implementing new features and making improvements to existing blocks. The commits show a focus on frontend development, with significant work on UI components using JavaScript (likely React) and integrating them with the existing WooCommerce ecosystem. The user also made changes to PHP code, indicating some involvement with the backend logic of the blocks. The user added testing using JavaScript.
wordpresswoocommercefeature-plugingutenbergwoocommerce-blocks
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