Mike Crantea
Director Of Frontend Engineering at XWP
Puerto de la Cruz, Spain
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RockstarMike Crantea is a Director of Frontend Engineering with 12 years of experience leading teams to build polished, user-focused web experiences from Puerto de la Cruz, Spain. He currently heads frontend engineering at XWP, blending strategic leadership with hands-on UI and styling work. An active open-source contributor, Mike has improved AMP Stories and UI behavior in the widely used ampproject/amp-wp WordPress plugin, tackling image layout and CTA styling issues that directly impact content presentation. He excels at translating design intent into reliable front-end implementations and modernizing legacy components. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he balances product-minded thinking with attention to pixel-level detail.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
css10
front-end-development10
google-amp10
ampl10
ui-design9
firefox9
javascript7
safari6
html6
web-performance6
asp-net-mvc6
google-chrome6
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amp-wp
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 21 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike focused on improving the user interface and styling of the AMP WordPress plugin, particularly concerning AMP Stories functionality. Their contributions included adjusting the styling of call-to-action (CTA) elements, modifying image layouts, and ensuring proper spacing within AMP Stories. They addressed issues related to image display and layout, fixing display issues for images within the stories, and updated the layout options. The user also replaced an outdated component.
reservation-systemwordpress-apiwordpressphpwordpress-admin
xwp/wp-shortcode-ui-richtext
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
Shortcake (Shortcode UI) Richtext
Contributions:44 commits, 19 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 2 months
shortcode-uirichtextshortcode
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