Atanas Angelov
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
Summary
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RockstarAtanas Angelov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Varna, Bulgaria, with a decade of professional PHP and full‑stack experience focused on WordPress, Laravel and modern JS frameworks. He has shipped core features for high‑profile products like Divi and contributed to major open‑source projects at Automattic (Jetpack, wp‑calypso) and the Carbon Fields library, often fixing PHP compatibility issues and implementing licensing and partner‑portal workflows. Comfortable across backend, frontend and DevOps, he blends deep WordPress internals knowledge with React/Vue and Node skills to streamline product and platform integrations. Known for mentoring and code quality work at htmlBurger and Elegant Themes, he brings a pragmatic, maintenance‑first approach that keeps large codebases healthy while delivering user‑facing features.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
back-end-development10
jetpack10
apidoc10
wordpress10
redux10
plugin10
php10
custom-fields10
api10
react10
maintenance9
apim9
typescript9
typescript-types9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
htmlburger/carbon-fields
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
WordPress Custom Fields Library ✨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 879 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Atanas primarily contributed to the WordPress custom fields library by addressing bugs and improving code maintainability. Their work involved fixing outdated statements and PHP compatibility issues, specifically for PHP < 7. The user also simplified widget and generic datastores and addressed inheritance rules related to Nav_Menu_Item_Datastore.
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Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:162 reviews, 69 commits, 162 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Atanas primarily contributed to the development of the Partner Portal within the WordPress.com platform. Their work involved implementing features related to the partner licensing program, adding functionality for managing partner keys and invoices, and creating user interface components. The contributions span both frontend and backend development, as evidenced by changes in both React components (frontend) and API/state management code (backend). The user's work focused on improving the user experience and streamlining workflows.
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