Liuță Ovidiu
Engineering Lead at Automattic
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolLiuță Ovidiu is an engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building and improving web and e-commerce platforms, currently leading AI-driven initiatives for Customer Success at Automattic from Cluj-Napoca. As a WordPress VIP Premier Engineer and former Customer Success/Support director, he combines technical depth with customer-facing leadership to translate real-world needs into scalable product improvements. He is a proven full-stack contributor to WooCommerce and Action Scheduler, with notable work improving accessibility, checkout reliability, and background job robustness in widely used open-source projects. As founder and former CEO of XCloner, he brings entrepreneurial product sense and a track record of shipping a backup solution with over a million downloads. Comfortable across front-end accessibility fixes and backend security/refactors, he blends pragmatic engineering with a focus on maintainability and user impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca
Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
accessibility10
wordpress10
woocommerce10
php10
javascript10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
react10
ecommerce9
back-end-development9
wp-cli9
web-development8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/action-scheduler
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
A scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large queues of tasks in WordPress. Specifically designed for distribution in WordPress plugins (and themes) - no server access required.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 66 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Liuță contributed to the WordPress plugin "Action Scheduler," focusing on code quality and functionality improvements. Their work involved fixing code style issues, enhancing code security by replacing unsafe functions, and adding CLI commands. Key changes include implementing new schema creation via a command-line interface and refactoring code for better maintainability and security.
scalablewordpress-pluginsqueueswordpressno-server
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Liuță primarily focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the WooCommerce Blocks plugin. Their contributions include fixing screen reader issues, adding labels for better accessibility, and correcting display issues related to product image placeholders. They also made adjustments to the product categories block, including fixes for hierarchy display and shipping method encoding. The work demonstrates an understanding of front-end development principles, accessibility best practices, and the specific domain of e-commerce.
wordpresswoocommercefeature-plugingutenbergwoocommerce-blocks
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