Bart Kalisz
Senior JavaScript Engineer at Nearform
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolBart Kalisz is a Senior JavaScript Engineer with 14 years of experience building and hardening front-end systems across consumer and open-source projects. He has driven UI and UX improvements at Automattic and WooCommerce—contributing to high-profile repositories like Gutenberg and WooCommerce where his work stabilized critical E2E tests and refined block editor interactions. Comfortable in both product teams and large-scale open-source ecosystems, he pairs pragmatic front-end development with test automation to increase reliability and confidence in shipping features. His background in telecommunications and a Master’s in Electronics Engineering gives him a systems-oriented perspective often applied to debugging complex integration issues. Based in Lower Silesia, Poland, Bart blends product-focused engineering with a history of improving developer tooling and test suites for widely used platforms.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, Master in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications at The Silesian University of Technology
Polish, English
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Github Skills (24)
e2e-testing10
javascript10
e2e-test10
testing10
wordpress10
gutenberg10
e2e10
playwright10
react10
test-automation10
html5-canvas9
woocommerce9
redux9
css9
sass9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:538 reviews, 143 commits, 236 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bart primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress.com platform, focusing on the full-site editing features. Their work included implementing and refining page templates, as demonstrated by modifications to preview components and the introduction of theme setting integration. The user also worked on block modifications, such as adding a showcase module and fixing block-related test issues. These changes likely improve the user experience and functionality of WordPress.com's full-site editing capabilities.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
WordPress/gutenberg
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:320 reviews, 42 commits, 143 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bart primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Gutenberg block editor project, specifically focusing on the navigation and media-text blocks. They implemented features like adding a submenu icon to the navigation block and fixing the "Crop image to fill entire column" option in the media-text block. The commits also include improvements to the link control component, such as adding keyboard shortcuts and renaming edit button titles, indicating a focus on improving user interface and usability. Additionally, the user worked on e2e tests for better block editor functionality and user interaction.
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