Mikael Korpela
Product And Team Lead at Automattic
Lithuania
Summary
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RockstarMikael Korpela is a product and engineering leader with 16 years of experience blending design, full‑stack development, and team leadership across consumer and open-source projects. Based in Lithuania, he currently leads newsletter product and cross‑business engineering at Automattic after progressing from hands‑on software engineer to lead of leads. He combines a designer’s eye with backend chops—contributing to notable open‑source projects like MEAN.JS, Agenda, Trustroots and Automattic’s Calypso/Jetpack—improving UX, APIs, build processes and accessibility. As co‑founder of Trustroots he scaled a volunteer‑run travel community to ~100K members, demonstrating product thinking and community growth skills beyond code. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem‑solving that spans HTML/React frontends to Node/Mongo backends and for smoothing cross-team delivery in large distributed orgs. He’s equally comfortable shipping design-driven features and refactoring legacy systems to modern, testable architectures.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Finnish, Lithuanian, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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wordpress
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Github Skills (37)
git10
javascript10
expressjs10
admin10
job-scheduler10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
databases10
user-interface10
database-administration10
mongodb-database10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
angularjs10
html10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Trustroots/trustroots
Aug 2014 - Apr 2022
Travellers' community for sharing, hosting and getting people together.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:234 reviews, 2487 commits, 1713 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the Trustroots platform. Their contributions included improvements to HTML, the addition of specific UI components with React, and the integration of a new, more user-friendly language selection tool. The work involved both structural and visual enhancements, contributing to an improved user experience for the application. They also addressed the mobile app features by adding a feature where it remembers the content even if the user refreshes the page
travelinghostingreacttrustrootshospitality
agenda/agendash
Apr 2016 - Jan 2021
Agenda Dashboard
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 28 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily worked on the `lib/agendash.js` file, which suggests they focused on the core backend logic of the Agendash application. Their contributions involved modifying and extending the API, including functions for getting job information, managing job queues, and deleting jobs. Additionally, the user made changes to the testing framework, implementing tests related to jobs management. The code changes indicate a focus on API functionality and job management within the application.
cronjobjob-scheduleragendashcrondashboard
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