Claudio Sanches is a seasoned developer with 13 years of experience building and improving WordPress and WooCommerce ecosystems, currently at OptinMonster in São Paulo. He has a strong back-end focus with full-stack and front-end chops, contributing to high-profile open-source projects at Automattic and WooCommerce—work that includes payment integrations (Stripe Payment Request API), REST API enhancements, and scalable background processing. Claudio’s contributions show attention to internationalization, code quality, and build tooling (Grunt, gulp, pre-commit hooks), plus practical fixes for legacy compatibility and security in large PHP codebases. He pairs PHP and WordPress expertise with frontend improvements and theme work, having helped modernize themes, sanitize structured data, and integrate translation pipelines. Notably, he has experience enabling plugin interoperability (e.g., teacher admin access with WooCommerce) and improving multilingual readiness across core plugins. Trained in multimedia and web production at SENAC, he blends developer rigor with design and UX awareness.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico em Multimídia, Web Design, Programação, Tratamento de Imagem, Animação, Game para Web, Marketing SEO, Técnico em Multimídia, Web Design, Programação, Tratamento de Imagem, Animação, Game para Web, Marketing SEO at SENAC
Contributions:4 reviews, 161 commits, 37 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Claudio was primarily focused on developing a PHP library for interacting with the WooCommerce REST API. Their contributions involved the initial setup of core classes, request methods, and HTTP client functionality. They implemented methods for various HTTP request types (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) and integrated the use of cURL for API communication. The user also added documentation and coding standards to the codebase.
Framework and base theme for development with WordPress.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:564 commits, 51 PRs, 51 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Claudio appears to be primarily focused on front-end development within the WordPress theme. Their commits demonstrate the addition of front-end libraries such as HTML5shiv and Respond.js for cross-browser compatibility and the integration of Bootstrap. They also contributed to the basic structure of the theme, by adding header.php, functions.php, and footer.php files and creating a basic navigation system.
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