George Gecewicz
Software Engineering Manager at StellarWP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Gecewicz is a software engineering manager based in New York with 14 years of industry experience and a strong background in WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, and full‑stack web development. He progressed from technical support and plugin maintenance to leading engineering teams, currently managing the StellarWP web team while continuing to contribute hands‑on to core products. His work on widely used projects like The Events Calendar demonstrates attention to UX, timezone/date correctness, JSON‑LD support, and internationalization. Comfortable across front‑end React apps (including Cordova iPad POS), back‑end APIs, MySQL performance, and AWS operations, he excels at shipping frequent, maintainable releases in high‑surface‑area codebases. Known for turning customer support insights into product improvements, he brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach to engineering leadership.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished History, Unfinished History at Boston University
English
Stackoverflow
568reputation
28kreached
1answer
12questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
plugin-development10
datetime9
i18next8
localization8
php8
internationalization8
apim7
api7
json-ld6
hosting6
filter6
mobile6
onload6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 537 commits, 279 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:George's contributions centered around modifying and maintaining the core functionality of The Events Calendar WordPress plugin. The commits involved changes to JavaScript files, likely related to AJAX calendar functionality and user interface improvements. These changes reflect a focus on enhancing the user experience by implementing tweaks and refinements to existing features. The user also added filters and corrected the date setting for a more accurate output for user's timezones, and adding support for JSON-LD and the translation.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
ggwicz/simple-todo-list
Sep 2015 - Dec 2019
:pushpin: The missing dashboard todo list widget for WordPress.
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years 2 months
widgetwordpressmissingtodo-listdashboard
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