Cristian Raiber
Founder at WPChill
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolCristian Raiber is a founder and WordPress-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-led businesses from Bucharest. He founded Macho Themes and now leads WPChill, which he grew into a six-figure company by shipping themes and plugins and sharing candid lessons about product and business development. Hands-on in the codebase, he routinely stresses and hardens WPChill repositories—often deliberately "breaking" things to find and fix fragile areas—and contributes to well-known projects like the Sparkling theme. With a background in automatics and computer science from Universitatea Politehnica din București, he blends full-stack development and UX-focused theming with entrepreneurial grit. Known for transparent storytelling about failures as well as wins, he helps other creators navigate product-market fit for WordPress businesses.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, Informatics and computer science, High School Degree, Informatics and computer science at Edmond NicolauBachelors Degree, Automatics and Computer Science, Bachelors Degree, Automatics and Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Romanian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
theme-development10
wordpress10
css10
php9
bootstra8
bootstrap8
html6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ColorlibHQ/Sparkling
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
WordPress Bootstrap 3 theme with dozens of options powered by WordPress Customizer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 76 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Cristian primarily reverted changes related to the "First development version update" and "Update numero 1", indicating they were likely involved in a previous version of the theme. These reverts affected files related to a customizer section for recommended actions and CSS, suggesting involvement in both the theme's functionality and styling. The commits demonstrate a role in maintaining or modifying the theme's features and visual presentation.
bootstrap-wordpressbootstrap-3wordpresscsswordpress-theme
ColorlibHQ/simple-custom-post-order
Aug 2018 - Feb 2022
Order posts(posts, any custom post types) using a Drag and Drop Sortable JavaScript. Configuration is unnecessary.
Contributions:2 reviews, 31 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 6 months
wordpressjavascriptdrag-and-dropsortableposts
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