Micael Muñoz
Senior Staff Engineer at XWP
Armstrong, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMicael Muñoz is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building and improving WordPress ecosystems, currently leading architecture and delivery at Principal WP after senior roles at XWP and Automattic. He blends back-end PHP craftsmanship—contributing to major projects like Sensei LMS, Edit Flow, and Jetpack—with front-end accessibility and UX improvements for WooCommerce's Storefront theme. Comfortable working on high-scale sites, he has a track record of refactoring core logic, tightening role-based access, and improving editorial workflows and accessibility. Based in Armstrong, British Columbia, he pairs technical depth with practical curiosity—collecting local air quality data, refining waffles and spaghetti recipes, and maintaining a 3.5 pickleball level—bringing a pragmatic, human touch to engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
Github Skills (18)
accessibility10
javascript10
sens10
wordpress-themes10
back-end-development10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
css10
lms10
php10
front-end-development10
wordpress-plugin10
wp-theme10
documentation10
woocommerce9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/Edit-Flow
Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
WordPress plugin to accelerate your editorial workflow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 31 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Micael primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the WordPress plugin, Edit Flow. Their contributions centered on modifying the display and retrieval of custom post statuses within the plugin's various modules, including the calendar and story budget features. They refactored code to directly retrieve post status labels, eliminating the need for helper functions in multiple areas of the application. Additionally, they addressed issues with the custom status implementation within the Gutenberg editor, ensuring correct status handling.
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Automattic/sensei
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Sensei LMS - Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 28 reviews, 151 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Micael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Sensei LMS plugin. Their commits focused on modifying core PHP files to restrict access based on user roles, add functionality to the enrollment process, and fix various bugs related to the course and lesson management features. The user also refactored code, improving the handling of quizzes, video content, and the display of learning progress, demonstrating a strong understanding of the plugin's architecture.
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