Michał Iwanow
Team Lead at Automattic
Wroclaw Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Iwanow is a seasoned full-stack engineer and team lead with 10 years of experience building responsive web and mobile applications using React, React Native, Scala, and Node.js. Currently leading engineering at Automattic after progressing from a remote Code Wrangler role, he blends hands-on frontend UI craft with backend service design and cloud deployments on AWS and Azure. He has a track record of shipping pragmatic, maintainable solutions—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile WooCommerce project where he improved marketplace and subscription features and optimized promotion handling. Comfortable across databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB and CI pipelines with GitLab, he favors simplicity over over-engineering while mentoring teams. Based in Wrocław, he balances technical leadership with real-world curiosity—travel, scuba diving, and walking his dog inform his collaborative, resilient approach.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Wrocław University of Science and Technology
English, French, Polish
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
woocommerce10
php10
apidoc9
javascript9
api9
react8
css7
html7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 1 commit, 25 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to the WooCommerce platform by adding and modifying features related to the in-app marketplace and subscription functionalities. This included implementing tracking parameters for Google Analytics, updating the My Subscriptions screen with label and column adjustments, and enhancing search functionality within the in-app marketplace. The user also refactored the marketplace promotions system to use transients instead of Action Scheduler, improving performance and admin control.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
mcliwanow/css-only-loaders
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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