Fulvio Notarstefano
Senior Software Engineer at Kestrel
Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolFulvio Notarstefano is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience architecting and leading backend systems for e-commerce, currently shaping cross-platform WooCommerce and Shopify solutions at Kestrel. He has driven technical consolidation and modernization of large plugin portfolios, built robust CI/CD pipelines, and co-developed cross-platform backends and high-value integrations such as POS connectors and S3 bridges. Previously a core technical lead at SkyVerge and later at GoDaddy, he led flagship WooCommerce products, maintained key open-source repositories, and worked directly with partners like Facebook on ecosystem integrations. A pragmatic engineer who prefers autonomous, asynchronous workflows, he designs clean, testable code intended to be readable by both humans and AI assistants. Beyond work, his 15+ years of remote experience and a background spanning startups to enterprise give him a rare blend of operational agility and product-scale discipline. Based in Fukuoka and an avid traveler, he brings a global perspective often reflected in cross-cultural collaboration and practical, automation-first engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Political Science and Government, 110/110 Magna cum laude, Bachelor's Degree, Political Science and Government, 110/110 Magna cum laude at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'Master's Degree, Political Science and Government, 110/110 Magna cum laude, Master's Degree, Political Science and Government, 110/110 Magna cum laude at Università di Pisa
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
php10
back-end-development10
ecommerce9
html6
htaccess6
css-float6
javascript6
jquery6
regex6
closest6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
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:1 review, 22 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Fulvio primarily contributed to the WooCommerce platform by addressing bugs and improving code quality within the administrative settings area. Their work focused on fixing issues related to custom webhook topic selection and enhancing code style. They also implemented text filters for shipping-related messages in the cart templates and addressed an autoloader issue related to REST API extensions. The user demonstrated skills in PHP and working with the WooCommerce codebase.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
godaddy-wordpress/woocommerce-dev-helper
Jun 2016 - Jan 2022
A simple plugin for helping develop and debug WooCommerce & extensions
Contributions:3 releases, 20 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years 8 months
wordpresswoocommercepluginextensionsdebug
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