Georgi Stoyanov
Launch & Infrastructure Engineer Newspack at Automattic
Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorgi Stoyanov is a Launch & Infrastructure Engineer at Automattic with 12 years of experience building complex web applications and products, primarily around WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel, and modern JS frameworks like Vue and React. He combines deep hands-on development—ranging from custom themes and plugins to SaaS apps and API work—with infrastructure and launch responsibilities for high-profile publishing platforms. A long-time freelance full-stack developer and mentor, he has led onboarding and skill growth at teams while shipping production features and public APIs. Georgi is an active open-source contributor to the widely used Carbon Fields WordPress library, where he’s fixed bugs, expanded widgets, and improved core field behavior. Known for delivering more than expected, he favors pragmatic refactors (e.g., removing risky extract() usage) and clean integrations that reduce maintenance overhead. Based in Varna, Bulgaria, he brings a pragmatic, client-focused mindset and a willingness to try new approaches on each project.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Telerik Academy SchoolHigh School of Mathematics "Dr Petar Beron" - Varna
English, Russian, Bulgarian
Github Skills (5)
wordpress10
php10
custom-fields10
css9
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
htmlburger/carbon-fields
May 2014 - Sep 2016
WordPress Custom Fields Library ✨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Georgi primarily contributed to the Carbon Fields library by addressing bugs, implementing new features, and improving the overall functionality of the WordPress custom fields library. Their work included fixing CSS styles, extending widget capabilities, and refactoring code by removing extract() calls. They also focused on enhancing the core features such as handling sidebar options and displaying the correct data in the relationship fields.
custom-fieldswordpresswordpress-admindefinitionsfields
2c-gstoqnov/carbon-vc-shortcodes
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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