Miguel Torres
JavaScript Engineer at Automattic
Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Torres is a JavaScript engineer with 11 years of experience building polished front-end experiences and leading teams across fintech, healthcare, and consumer web products. Currently at Automattic, he contributes to high-impact open-source projects like WordPress.com, Gutenberg and Jetpack, with hands-on work improving editor UX, component styling, and cross-cutting front-end architecture. Previously he led a 7–13 person front-end team at Ebury, setting standards for frameworks, deployments and maintainability across customer touchpoints. Comfortable across the stack from React and Redux to PHP and Django, he pairs product-focused design sensibilities with pragmatic engineering discipline. Based in Andalusia, Spain, Miguel brings a designer’s eye—“capturing the beauty of a moment”—to usable interfaces and scalable front-end systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications Engineer, Sound and Image, Telecommunications Engineer, Sound and Image at Universidad de Málaga
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
css10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
redux10
react10
plugin10
ui-components10
html9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1156 reviews, 364 commits, 1006 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily focused on front-end development within the wp-calypso repository, contributing to the user interface and user experience of the WordPress.com platform. Their work involved refactoring and renaming editor actions in the Gutenberg editor for clarity, as well as modifying the theme and layout of the application, to include adding a page for the user to update the homepage. The user also contributed to improving the design and usability of the app by adding features like a welcome modal.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
Automattic/jetpack
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:850 reviews, 171 commits, 359 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily focused on enhancing the existing WordPress plugin by implementing new features, and refactoring existing codebase. They made changes to both the front-end components (JavaScript, React) and the back-end logic (PHP). Their work includes UI updates, API integration and improvements for the existing codebase.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
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