Konstantin Kovshenin
Systems Wrangler at Automattic
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKonstantin Kovshenin is a seasoned systems engineer with 15 years of experience building and hardening high-traffic WordPress platforms, currently wrangling infrastructure at Automattic from his base in the UK. He blends deep backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to flagship projects like WooCommerce and WordPress.org—with pragmatic full‑stack touches such as modernizing the _s theme and removing JS in favor of CSS where it makes sense. Known for fixing race conditions, optimizing queued data flows, and improving developer experience, he moves confidently between platform architecture and hands-on code. A longtime WordPress contributor since 2008, he brings an operator’s mindset to scalability and reliability, and has a noted aversion to JavaScript that often leads to cleaner, simpler solutions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Industrial College, MagnitogorskComputer studies, Economics, Computer studies, Economics at Russian New University, Moscow
Russian, Italian
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Github Skills (28)
woocommerce10
javascript10
python10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
plugin10
php10
integer10
theme-development10
apache9
shortcode9
pickle9
json9
apidoc9
css9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/_s
Aug 2012 - Jun 2014
Hi. I'm a starter theme called _s, or underscores, if you like. I'm a theme meant for hacking so don't use me as a Parent Theme. Instead try turning me into the next, most awesome, WordPress theme out there. That's what I'm here for.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin contributed to the WordPress theme, _s, by improving code readability, fixing bugs, and enhancing the user experience. They refactored code to use more readable PHP syntax and added functionality to display the search query in the search form. The user also modernized the theme's navigation by replacing JavaScript with a CSS-based implementation and incorporated HTML5 support for galleries. These changes improved the theme's maintainability and usability.
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WordPress/wordpress.org
May 2013 - Oct 2016
WordPress.org Meta, Git-ified. Synced from git://meta.git.wordpress.org/ This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress Meta subversion repository. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:162 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily contributed to the WordPress.org repository by modifying the `wc-post-types` plugin, which is part of the larger WordPress.org ecosystem. Their changes included implementing features for session scheduling and incorporating the ability to constrain the schedule shortcode by date. They also addressed session handling across multiple tracks and improved overall schedule rendering logic.
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