Alex Florisca
Software Engineer at Hands Up Education CIC
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Florisca is a software engineer based in Bristol with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience and over 15 years across tech roles spanning marketing, business and development. He has built scalable, high-quality front-end and API-driven experiences at companies like Automattic, Financial Times and Sky, with notable contributions to WooCommerce where he improved checkout UX and migrated components to TypeScript. Comfortable across JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node and Python, he combines product-minded engineering with measurable outcomes such as conversion and performance improvements. He is an active open-source contributor and community communicator, having shaped roadmaps, docs and release posts while maintaining WCAG accessibility standards. Alex also brings startup and teaching experience—from taking a product to MVP and profit as a CTO to running coding clubs—so he blends entrepreneurial instincts with systems-level engineering. Pragmatic and community-focused, he excels in remote, autonomous environments where cross-functional impact matters.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Francis Bacon SchoolICT Maths Business Studies, ICT Maths Business Studies at Sandringham SchoolMeng Avionics Systems Engineering, Meng Avionics Systems Engineering at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (13)
woocommerce10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
gutenberg9
wordpress8
mamp6
phantomjs6
karma-jasmine6
php4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 326 reviews, 257 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WooCommerce Blocks plugin, with a focus on UI components. Their work included adding a placeholder to the product search block, fixing errors in the Cart block related to shipping addresses, and converting several components to Typescript. They also addressed issues in the product details and order summary components.
woocommercewoocommerce-blockswordpressgutenberg
woocommerce/woocommerce
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:213 reviews, 5 commits, 68 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the WooCommerce Blocks project, focusing on front-end development. They implemented new features in the product search block editor, including placeholder text and internationalization. They also worked on converting various components, such as the ReturnToCartButton, FormStep, and ProductPrice, to TypeScript, improving the code quality and maintainability of the project. Their contributions also included fixing bugs related to the checkout cart.
ecommercewordpresswoocommercephpautomattic
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