Crisoforo Hernández
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Oaxaca, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolCrisoforo Hernández is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building fast, reliable, user-focused web solutions and driving migrations from legacy stacks to modern architectures. Based in Oaxaca, Mexico, he brings full-stack expertise—from API design and database architecture to React and performance-tuned front ends—and has shipped production features at scale for companies like Netflix and 10up. He’s an effective remote collaborator and interviewer who pairs stakeholder communication with hands-on coding to support global product rollouts. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and frontend behavior in high-profile WordPress projects such as Google Site Kit and Gutenberg while also authoring backend algorithm tests across PHP and Ruby repos. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he combines performance optimization with thoughtful UX fixes to reduce regressions and streamline developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Computer Science, Engineer's Degree Computer Science at Anahuac Oaxaca University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (40)
algorithm10
unit-testing10
algorithms10
javascript10
css10
wordpress10
rspec10
implement10
phpunit10
ruby10
php10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
react10
binary-search9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 775 commits, 297 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Crisoforo primarily focused on implementing and improving the backend functionality of the Events Calendar WordPress plugin. Their contributions included adding utility functions and a new method for determining event home pages, updating code to ensure consistency, filtering events, and resolving errors on the iCal component. The user also worked on optimizing the codebase by removing legacy functions and implementing code style improvements.
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WordPress/gutenberg
Feb 2017 - Dec 2021
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:8 commits, 3 PRs, 18 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Crisoforo contributed to the block editor by modifying and adding functionality to the `blocks.js` file. They refactored code to use `classList` functions for adding and removing CSS classes, addressing a bug related to repeated class additions. The user added controls to blocks and implemented logic for setting image states. Furthermore, the user renamed parameters for added clarity and improved code organization by consolidating class name additions.
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