Alexandre Faustino
Senior Developer at TeamUpdraft
Leiria, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Faustino is a Senior Developer and WooCommerce specialist with 11 years of experience building plugins and eCommerce tooling from Leiria, Portugal. He leads development at WP Overnight and currently contributes senior engineering at TeamUpdraft, focusing on reliable, scalable solutions that simplify store management. A hands-on contributor to the popular Action Scheduler project, he’s improved core database query flexibility for large background job queues—an indication of his backend rigor beyond typical plugin work. His background in design and front-end roles gives him a practical eye for developer ergonomics and merchant-facing features, so his code tends to balance performance with usability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Graphic Design, Bachelor's degree, Graphic Design at Instituto Superior D. Dinis
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (6)
wordpress10
php10
mysql10
json9
database-design8
sql8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/action-scheduler
May 2020 - Oct 2022
A scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large queues of tasks in WordPress. Specifically designed for distribution in WordPress plugins (and themes) - no server access required.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on modifying the `ActionScheduler_DBStore.php` file, which suggests contributions to the core database storage and retrieval mechanisms of the action scheduler. They implemented partial matching for arguments when querying actions, enhancing the flexibility of the query functionality. Further commits involved code improvements, WPCS fixes, and refactoring to align with coding standards. The changes involved updating how the arguments are queried in the database.
scalablewordpress-pluginsqueueswordpressno-server
alexmigf/woocommerce
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
An open source eCommerce plugin for WordPress.
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
ecommercewordpress-apiwordpresswoocommercewordpress-plugin
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