Marin Atanasov
Engineering Director at Automattic
Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolMarin Atanasov is an Engineering Director at Automattic with 13+ years of full-stack web experience, specializing in WordPress, PHP, MySQL and modern JavaScript. He progressed internally from Software Engineer to Lead and now Director, combining hands-on coding with team leadership and delivery across large open-source projects. A WordPress core contributor and frequent author of plugins and themes, Marin has shipped notable front-end work in Gutenberg (including a Categories block) and backend/API improvements in Jetpack. He’s obsessed with elegant, detail-oriented solutions—often spotting edge cases others miss—and has improved compatibility and CI/CD across libraries like Carbon Fields. Based in Varna, Bulgaria, he balances technical depth with mentorship (former instructor) and a creative side that surfaces in photography and music. Known for turning complex problems into polished, maintainable code, he thrives on debugging tricky issues in distributed codebases.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Otets Paisii, KardzhaliMaster's degree Informatics, Master's degree Informatics at University of Economics - Varna
Bulgarian, English
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Github Skills (27)
editors10
debug10
javascript10
apidoc10
ui-components10
wordpress10
blocks10
editor10
php10
api10
rest-api10
blockly10
react10
git9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4392 reviews, 2430 commits, 4352 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Marin primarily worked on front-end components within the WordPress.com Calypso platform, contributing to the Post Editor and WooCommerce settings. Their work involved replacing `<label />` tags with `<FormLabel>` components, adding features like a custom domain address and other site-specific functionalities. Furthermore, they have been observed adding new components and modifying existing ones, along with CSS classes, to adapt to the project design standards.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
htmlburger/carbon-fields
Jan 2013 - Jun 2016
WordPress Custom Fields Library ✨
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 283 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Marin primarily contributed to the Carbon Fields WordPress custom fields library by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the library. These fixes involved addressing issues in SQL queries, fixing compatibility problems with other plugins (such as Gravity Forms), and improving the handling of various field types (e.g., rich text, date/time, and map). The user's work improved overall code quality and addressed compatibility concerns within the library.
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