Bartosz Budzanowski
Staff Software Engineer at Automattic
Wroclaw Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolBartosz Budzanowski is a Staff Software Engineer based in Wroclaw with 10 years of experience building and leading engineering teams at Automattic and earlier roles at Dolby and Nokia. He blends back-end PHP systems work and front-end React improvements—contributing to major open-source ecommerce projects like WooCommerce and Facebook for WooCommerce—focusing on checkout UX, payment gateway integration, versioning and synchronization. As a former Development Team Lead and long-term Code Wrangler at Automattic, he pairs hands-on coding with delivery and upgrade strategy for large plugin ecosystems. His background in mechatronics and electrical engineering gives him a systems-oriented approach to performance and compatibility challenges, evidenced by optimizations for translation delivery and memory usage in catalog sync. Notably, he moves comfortably between improving user-facing interfaces and deep server-side fixes, making him effective at bridging product and platform concerns.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Postgraduate Studies, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Postgraduate Studies at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (15)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
apim10
php10
javascript10
api10
front-end-development10
react10
ecommerce10
gutenberg9
apidoc9
woocommerce-blocks9
version-control9
testing8
css7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/facebook-for-woocommerce
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The official plugin from Meta. This repository is now officially maintained by Meta's engineering team. We welcome and encourage contributions from the community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 184 reviews, 397 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Bartosz primarily contributed to the back-end of the WooCommerce Facebook plugin, focusing on versioning, upgrades, and product synchronization. Their commits included the creation of upgrade functions, versioning updates across plugin files, and the addition of placeholder images for product displays. The user also addressed memory usage for catalog synchronization.
plugin-extensionventurespartywordpresswoocommerce
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 109 reviews, 47 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bartosz primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the WooCommerce Blocks project. They focused on improving the user interface and experience of the checkout process by updating the design and layout of payment methods using React and related libraries. They also addressed bugs in the test suites, and updated the product's version for the next release. Additionally, the user implemented features for payment gateway integrations, showing a focus on the interaction between front-end components and the payment processing capabilities.
wordpresswoocommercefeature-plugingutenbergwoocommerce-blocks
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