Hector Lovo
Senior UX Engineer at Think Company
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHector Lovo is a Senior UX Engineer with 11 years of software experience and a strong full-stack background, currently shaping product experiences at Think Company. He has led remote engineering teams, mentored junior developers, and driven both frontend and backend optimizations across complex systems. At Automattic and prior roles he balanced security incident response, infrastructure improvements, and scalable feature delivery, bringing a user-centered lens to technical decisions. His open-source contributions include backend fixes to WooCommerce’s official Stripe gateway, improving payment UX around "Buy Now" behavior and documentation accuracy. Based in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Hector combines formal CS training from the University of Virginia with hands-on product engineering discipline. He’s known for translating ambiguous product needs into practical, auditable implementations that improve reliability and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Science at Blue Ridge Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
woocommerce10
transaction10
payment-gateway10
php10
gateway10
stripe-api10
api9
apim9
javascript8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 70 reviews, 24 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hector primarily focused on enhancing the Stripe payment gateway for WooCommerce, making improvements related to the "Buy Now" button's visibility based on product variations' stock levels. They addressed issues related to displaying the "Buy Now" button and hiding the "variable-subscription" option when variations were out of stock. In addition to this, the user updated documentation links and fixed broken links, ensuring accurate information for users. They also made adjustments to payment methods' capitalization across multiple sections.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
dtrinh100/Music-Playlist
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:17 PRs, 39 pushes, 17 branches in 5 months
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