Claudiu Lodromanean is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-impact publishing and e-commerce platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering for Newspack at Automattic. He architected, launched, and grew the open-source Newspack CMS used by news organizations while previously leading releases and core development for WooCommerce, contributing to checkout, order management, and UI components used by millions of stores. Hands-on and product-focused, he moves between back-end systems and front-end blocks, with a track record of shipping secure, reliable code and improving developer-facing tooling. Based in Depoe Bay, Oregon, he blends engineering leadership with active open-source contributions, and brings the pragmatic curiosity of a former founder who once built an automated e-commerce delivery service.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Portland State University
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 releases, 1668 commits, 1150 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Claudiu contributed to the WooCommerce platform by implementing and refining features related to the checkout and order management systems. Their work included fixing bugs, improving code formatting, and optimizing functionality for tasks such as address validation and product price calculation. They also worked on improvements to the product importer and webhooks.
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:103 commits, 39 PRs, 103 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Claudiu primarily focused on developing and modifying components within the WooCommerce Blocks plugin. Their work involved setting up and moving existing code, suggesting a refactoring or feature implementation effort. The commit indicates a deep involvement in the `products-block.js` file, demonstrating a strong understanding of the codebase and its UI components. This suggests their contribution focused on user interface development within the context of WooCommerce.
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Claudiu Lodromanean - Head Of Engineering, Newspack at Automattic