Maria Paktiti
Content Engineer at WorkOS
United States
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Top SchoolMaria Paktiti is a content-minded backend engineer with 10 years of experience building and orchestrating services across startups and developer-focused companies. Currently a Content Engineer at WorkOS, she blends technical writing and hands-on backend development—previously shaping checkout and integrations at Mailchimp and building microservices for Reaction Commerce. She’s fluent in Go, gRPC, Node, and cloud-native tooling (GCP/AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and has designed production APIs and deployment automation for customer clouds. An advocate for simplicity, Maria has led content teams at Auth0 and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Reaction Commerce and Auth0 docs, where she improved core utilities and developer quickstarts. Her background spans full-stack problem solving, from PL/SQL and Java enterprise systems to modern API-first commerce and identity tooling. Colleagues rely on her for clear technical communication and pragmatic refactors that make systems more robust and maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Support of Computer Systems & Applications, Information Technology Support of Computer Systems & Applications at Piraeus Technical Vocational SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Software Engineering at Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Athens
English, Greek, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
catalog10
html10
nodejs10
documentation10
auth10
ecommerce9
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
mongodb8
javas8
mongodb-database8
java8
python6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
auth0/docs
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Auth0 documentation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3365 PRs, 3744 pushes, 1805 branches in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily focused on restructuring and updating documentation related to Auth0's Java servlet quickstart guide. Their contributions included initial setup, removing debugging artifacts, adding and modifying code snippets, including changes to HTML files for application configuration. They also made updates to UI elements, replaced hardcoded URLs with variables, and updated file references.
auth0authentication
reactioncommerce/reaction
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Mailchimp Open Commerce is an API-first, headless commerce platform built using Node.js, React, GraphQL. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 95 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily worked on fixing and refactoring code related to permalinks and URLs within the Reaction Commerce platform. This involved making permalinks required, auto-updating them under specific conditions, and setting labels. Additionally, the user refactored a utility function for generating absolute URLs, enhancing its robustness with more tests and switching to string methods for performance. These changes suggest a focus on improving the platform's catalog and core utility functionalities.
ecommerceapi-firstshopping-cartreact-jsshop
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