David Stone
Senor Developer at Ultimate Multisite
Nampa, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Stone is a seasoned full-stack developer with 14 years of experience building high-performance web and e-commerce systems from Idaho. He has strong backend chops demonstrated by contributions to WooCommerce and its Stripe gateway—improving cart/session handling, error messaging, PHP 8 compatibility, and webhook support for refunds. At Automattic he shipped WordPress and WooCommerce extensions and Gutenberg UI components, and he now leads development on the open-source Ultimate Multisite project. His background spans performance tuning, large-scale caching, serverless indexing, and front-end React work, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective. Known for reviving and maintaining open-source tooling, he combines hands-on implementation with a habit of cleaning up legacy systems and shipping measurable performance gains.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northwest Nazarene University
Github Skills (8)
woocommerce10
php10
backend10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
stripe-api10
webhooks9
wordpress9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 25 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Stripe payment gateway for WooCommerce. They addressed compatibility issues with PHP 8, including fixes related to the `method_exists` function. The user also made changes to the payment gateway's logic, such as filtering payment methods by currency and adding webhooks for refund updates. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the integration of the Stripe payment gateway with the WooCommerce platform.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
woocommerce/woocommerce
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 18 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the backend logic and functionality of the WooCommerce platform. Their commits focused on enhancing the product purchase process by adding more specific error messages for unpurchasable items, including variations and external products. They also made improvements to the cart and session management, ensuring the user experience is improved. Further contributions include bug fixes and code optimizations related to product display and handling.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
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