Marco Giannotta
Engineering Team Lead at Automattic
Greater Catania Metropolitan Area Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Giannotta is an Engineering Team Lead with 12 years of experience designing and shipping front-end experiences, currently leading a developer team at Automattic focused on pioneering eCommerce solutions for WooCommerce. He combines product-driven vision with hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript and Storybook, contributing notable front-end work to the widely used woocommerce/woocommerce project—migrating and refining blocks and UI components for full site editing. Previously a tech lead and founder-style web designer, he has a track record of improving developer workflows, implementing UI refactors, and delivering polished user experiences for enterprise and bespoke products. Based in the Greater Catania area, he blends engineering discipline with a creative background in philosophy and linguistics, and—true to his GitHub bio—keeps time for playful experimentation that often leads to unexpected UX improvements.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale'Erasmus project, East Asian Studies, Erasmus project, East Asian Studies at Københavns Universitet
English, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (8)
woocommerce10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
storybook10
typescript-types10
react10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 302 reviews, 140 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Marco focused on front-end development within the WooCommerce Blocks repository. Their contributions primarily involved migrating existing Storybook entries to the latest version, improving and fixing various components by creating and refining stories and fixing component implementations. They also made improvements to the Featured Product and Category blocks, enhancing their functionality with new features like image editing controls and expanding styling options. The user demonstrated experience with React, TypeScript, and Storybook.
woocommercewoocommerce-blockswordpressgutenberg
woocommerce/woocommerce
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 5 commits, 43 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Marco primarily worked on enhancing and migrating WooCommerce Blocks frontend components, with a strong focus on Storybook integration. Their commits demonstrate the development and refinement of UI elements within the WooCommerce ecosystem, including the Featured Product, Featured Category, and Product Query blocks. The user also addressed issues with existing components, and refactored components to support the latest Gutenberg APIs.
ecommercewordpresswoocommercephpautomattic
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