Artur Piszek
Staff Engineer, Applied AI at Automattic
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolArtur Piszek is a Staff Engineer at Automattic with 11 years of experience building product-first web platforms and applied AI for WordPress.com and WooCommerce. He blends formal training in computer science and applied social psychology to design human-centered systems, having founded and led WordPress.com Earn to help millions monetize their work. Artur’s hands-on contributions span full-stack work and open-source maintenance—everything from a Google Translate widget in Jetpack to recurring payments and subscription flows in wp-calypso and robustness fixes in WooCommerce. At Automattic he designed the WordPress.com/WooCommerce Agent architecture to scale AI-powered site building across the company’s product ecosystem. Based in Warsaw, he writes about networked second-order effects and democratizing digital commerce, a perspective that informs both his engineering and product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Student, Human Resource Management / Business, Erasmus Student, Human Resource Management / Business at Högskolan Kristianstad / Kristianstad UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science, B+, Master's Degree, Computer Science, B+ at University of WarsawMaster's Degree, Applied Social Psychology, A, Master's Degree, Applied Social Psychology, A at Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej w Warszawie
English, Polish, French, German
Github Skills (20)
woocommerce10
javascript10
testing10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
redux10
php10
react10
unit-testing9
s69
nodejs9
js9
html9
file-handling9
api-client7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2015 - Sep 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 363 commits, 549 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Artur primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the WordPress.com platform, as evidenced by the numerous updates to components and features within the `wp-calypso` repository. Their commits included implementing new features like the recurring payments system and integrating new user-facing messages and UI elements. They also addressed feedback and corrected bugs, modifying both the front-end and back-end code to optimize user experience, add payment and subscription features.
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Automattic/jetpack
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:202 reviews, 114 commits, 105 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Artur primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Google Translate widget for the Jetpack plugin. Their work involved implementing the widget, integrating the Google Translate API, and ensuring proper functionality within the WordPress environment. They also addressed code quality issues by refactoring code, adding comments, and applying coding standards. Furthermore, the user updated the widget's code base by correcting the locale regex and fixing a spacing issue.
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