Gabriel Manussakis is a Senior Front End Engineer based in São Paulo with 10 years of experience blending React.js expertise and a background in graphic design to craft performant, accessible, and user-focused web applications. He excels at translating design intent into maintainable, well-tested code and communicates effectively with product and design teams to improve outcomes. Gabriel has shipped front-end work across SaaS, e-commerce, and digital agencies, and contributes to major open-source projects like WooCommerce as an accessibility specialist—improving checkout focus order and screen reader announcements. His design training informs a strong UX sensibility that complements his technical skills in JavaScript, testing tools, and web accessibility.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Desenho e Ilustração, Desenho e Ilustração at Folium escola de arte
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Accessibility Specialist
Contributions:97 reviews, 78 PRs, 465 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel's contributions focused on improving the accessibility of the WooCommerce platform. They addressed numerous accessibility issues by fixing typos in code comments and documentation, adding ARIA attributes to various form elements and links, and ensuring proper screen reader announcements for updates in the mini-cart. The user also made significant improvements to the visual presentation and focus order within the checkout process.
Contributions:13 commits, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
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