Dan Robert
Senior Engineer II WordPress Technical Lead at Kanopi Studios
Greer, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDan Robert is a Senior Engineer and WordPress technical lead with 14 years of front-end engineering experience, currently driving WordPress projects and client-facing technical strategy at Kanopi Studios. He has a long tenure at Automattic where he led teams building WooCommerce blocks, contributed to Jetpack and wp-calypso, and improved complex UI/UX in high-traffic WordPress environments. Skilled in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React and TypeScript, he balances hands-on implementation (responsive galleries, RTL fixes, mini-cart UI) with roadmap planning and cross-functional collaboration. A former collegiate athlete with degrees in Media Arts and Psychology/Sociology, he brings both team leadership and user-centered thinking to engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Media Arts - Web Design & Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Media Arts - Web Design & Development at Platt College-San DiegoBachelor of Science - BS Psychology & Sociology, Bachelor of Science - BS Psychology & Sociology at Western Michigan University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
woocommerce10
javascript10
css10
wordpress10
responsive-design10
typescript10
s610
woocommerce-blocks10
gutenberg10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
frontend10
web-frontend10
react10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:106 reviews, 33 commits, 93 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the front-end components of the WooCommerce Blocks plugin. Their work involved adding new UI elements, such as a mini-cart icon, and implementing features like hiding/showing the cart price. They also made several changes to the block's appearance and functionality, and refactored existing code. Additionally, the user wrote unit tests.
wordpresswoocommercefeature-plugingutenbergwoocommerce-blocks
Automattic/wp-calypso
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 23 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `wp-calypso` repository. Their commits involved modifying React components, specifically within the context of user and site management, including the creation of invite features and updates to the user interface. The user also removed live chat mentions from the personal plan, and updated the DIFM CTA on the themes page.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
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