Alfredo Sumaran
Lima, Lima, Peru
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfredo Sumaran is a seasoned software engineer based in Lima with 11 years building scalable web applications using Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript. He has held senior roles at Automattic and GitLab and has deep experience across full-stack and frontend engineering, contributing to both product-facing UI and backend/payment integrations. Alfredo is an active open-source contributor to major WooCommerce projects, improving the Stripe gateway and checkout logic with practical DevOps and backend fixes that streamline deployments and payment flows. His background in graphic design and technical computing gives him a pragmatic eye for usable interfaces and robust engineering, bridging design sensibility with production-grade systems. Known for shipping reliable improvements rather than flashy rewrites, he focuses on practical scalability and developer-friendly tooling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Designer, Graphic Designer at IPAD - Instituto Peruano de Arte y DiseñoTécnico en Computación e Informática Computación e Informática, Técnico en Computación e Informática Computación e Informática at ISTP Carlos Cueto Fernandini
English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
woocommerce10
docker10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
payment-gateway10
dockers10
php10
gateway10
refactoring10
backend10
stripe-api10
bash9
rest-api8
api-rest8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 265 reviews, 108 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alfredo focused on improving the WooCommerce Stripe payment gateway by implementing several key functionalities. They added a default.env file to the Docker setup for easier installation and configuration. The user also updated the code to save payment methods based on user preferences and implemented changes to save the source after a payment intent has succeeded. Furthermore, they modified the codebase to integrate the updated functions and deprecated features.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
woocommerce/woocommerce
May 2021 - May 2021
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Alfredo primarily contributed to the backend logic of the WooCommerce platform. Their commits focus on refining the checkout process, including skipping unnecessary code execution, consolidating checkbox input values, and setting default field values. They made improvements to the `includes/class-wc-checkout.php` file and also made general fixes to various PHP files using Rector suggestions.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
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