Fernando Mota
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolFernando Mota is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and maintaining web platforms, currently contributing to Automattic’s Sensei LMS. He brings deep back-end expertise across PHP, Python, Java, Go and JavaScript, plus hands-on experience with Docker, virtualization, and both distributed and traditional databases. Fernando has a strong open-source track record—fixing bugs, adding unit tests and refactoring core functionality in widely used WordPress projects like Sensei and WP-Job-Manager. His background includes full-stack roles at data-focused startups where he led migrations to cloud services (Heroku, AWS RDS) and built Dockerized development environments. A CS graduate and former OS tutor, he combines academic grounding in operating systems with practical work on public data processing and tooling. He also runs a technical blog and uses open-source projects as a laboratory to both learn and apply robust engineering practices.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Federal University of Santa CatarinaIndustrial Training, Computer Programming, Industrial Training, Computer Programming at SENAI/SC - National Service for Industrial TrainingHigh school, High school at School - Francisco Tolentino
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
debug10
jquery10
testing10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
cakephp9
lms9
phpunit9
javascript8
codemirror6
base646
autocomplete6
css6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/sensei
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Sensei LMS - Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 release, 325 reviews, 583 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Sensei LMS project. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to course archive pages and permalink structures, enhancing the functionality of the course archive pages by modifying query variables, and adding unit tests to validate the behavior of the course archive page's URL rewriting logic. Furthermore, the user addressed code and documentation issues, and also refactored parts of the codebase by refactoring code.
wordpressphpsenseisensei-lmsplugin
Automattic/WP-Job-Manager
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 184 reviews, 70 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the WP Job Manager plugin. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to caching and job filter reset, implementing new features like salary currency and unit options, and improving the display of salary information. The user also addressed translation issues and updated dependencies. The changes indicate a deep understanding of the plugin's core functionalities and the WordPress ecosystem.
job-listingsadmin-paneladminwordpressphp
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