Felipe Elia is a senior WordPress-focused software engineer and engineering leader with nine years of professional experience and a deep track record at 10up, where he progressed from Web Engineer to Associate Director of Engineering. He blends back-end expertise with front-end refinements—contributing notable refactors to ElasticPress’s Instant Results React components and improving search and multiselect behavior in WP-Job-Manager—demonstrating comfort across PHP, JavaScript/React, and Elasticsearch integrations. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he pairs hands-on coding with platform and team leadership, shipping bug fixes and feature work that improve real-world WordPress plugins used by many sites. Beyond core engineering, his background in marketing and digital strategy informs pragmatic product decisions and developer experience improvements.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Tecnólogo, Marketing, Tecnólogo, Marketing at Unicesumar
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:29 releases, 409 reviews, 1866 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Felipe's commits focus on refactoring Javascript code within a WordPress environment, primarily related to the "Instant Results" feature. The code changes involve modifications to React components and the integration with Elasticsearch. The work includes improvements to existing frontend components (e.g., checkbox-list, taxonomy-terms-facet, post-type-facet) and also reflects efforts to refactor core functionality and address related issues, likely impacting the application of search results within the WordPress environment.
Manage job listings from the WordPress admin panel, and allow users to post jobs directly to your site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the WordPress Job Manager plugin. Their commits addressed bug fixes related to multiselect fields and implemented features such as pre-selecting job types based on query parameters. They also made modifications to search functionality and post status handling. The user demonstrated an understanding of the plugin's core structure, including shortcodes and post types.
job-listingsadmin-paneladminwordpressphp
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