Jason Kytros
Code And Product Wrangler at Automattic
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Kytros is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and product-focused code wrangler with nine years building and modernizing WooCommerce plugins and merchant experiences from Greece. At Automattic he has driven refactors, redesigned flagship extensions, and shipped React-compatible features for Cart & Checkout Blocks and the Product Editor while collaborating closely with support and product teams. He’s contributed to the core WooCommerce project—improving frontend PHP/JS UX around inventory and attributes—and helped tune E2E suites that prevent regressions across releases. His background spans hands-on support, test automation leadership, and mentoring, which gives him a rare blend of customer empathy and engineering rigor. Notably, his work on Min/Max Quantities and Product Add‑Ons directly improved ratings and merchant retention at scale. He pairs academic training in informatics with practical open-source impact and a knack for turning support feedback into product improvements.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
19,6 , Excellent, 19,6 , Excellent at 1st Highschool of AlexandroupolisInformatics and Telecommunications, 7,9/10, Informatics and Telecommunications, 7,9/10 at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonInformatics, Informatics at USI Università della Svizzera italiana
Greek, English, Danish
Github Skills (8)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
front-end-development10
back-end-development10
react9
ui-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Dec 2017 - Jan 2022
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 6 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the WooCommerce frontend and backend aspects, as evidenced by code changes in both Javascript and PHP files. The user improved UI/UX of the Inventory tab, design enhancements for the Attributes tab, and ensured placeholder changes even after clearing Attribute values. The user also made changes to the attributes code and added an option to be used as a site icon, indicating expertise in frontend components and the WordPress ecosystem.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
woocommerce/woocommerce-gift-cards-coupon-input
Apr 2021 - Sep 2024
Mini-extension for WooCommerce Gift Cards that allows you to re-use the coupon input for applying gift card codes.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 5 months
wordpresswoocommercegift-cardgift-cardscoupon
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