Eli Karpinsky
Founder Director Of Engineering at Menaia
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEli Karpinsky is a founder and Director of Engineering with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering full-stack web and mobile systems, currently leading Menaia after senior engineering leadership at ecobee. He combines TypeScript-first back-end services, React/Next.js and Angular front ends, serverless cloud hosting (AWS/GCP/Netlify/Vercel), and pragmatic API design (REST/GraphQL) to ship scalable, secure products with CI/CD, testing, and WCAG accessibility baked in. Eli has a track record of migrating client-side logic into well-documented cloud APIs, architecting role-based data models and geolocation features, and optimizing legacy mobile apps with NativeScript. He contributes pragmatic fixes to open-source projects like WooCommerce, demonstrating attention to detail in real-world codebases. Classically trained in piano and holding a BSc (Honours) from York, he brings a blend of creative discipline and technical craftsmanship to product-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Piano Performance, Piano Performance at Royal Conservatory of MusicBachelor of Science with Honours, Bachelor of Science with Honours at York University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (17)
woocommerce10
git10
debug10
back-end-development10
wordpress10
php10
css9
django-admin9
return-value9
html6
django-static-files6
phpdoc6
python6
gruntjs6
django6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Sep 2013 - Dec 2020
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 22 PRs, 33 comments in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eli primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor improvements in the WooCommerce codebase. Their work included addressing a Windows-specific issue related to file handling, removing a duplicate array entry within the WooCommerce Admin plugin, and correcting spelling and variable names in comments and docblocks. They demonstrated a focus on refining existing code rather than implementing major new features.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
TIVWP/grunt-tivwp-po
Jul 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 years 10 months
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