Moon K
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMoon K is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience designing and modernizing scalable systems, most recently shaping WooCommerce onboarding and platform integrations at Automattic. He combines domain-driven design and clean-code principles to lead migrations from monoliths to service-oriented architectures, having driven substantial architecture and product improvements at Leaf Group and Society6. Moon has hands-on experience across languages and stacks—PHP, Python, Node, React—and has contributed meaningful backend and test automation work to high-profile open-source projects like WooCommerce. He led initiatives that increased user engagement (new onboarding wizard +40%), enabled reusable store blueprints, and implemented passwordless auth, demonstrating a focus on measurable product impact. Comfortable as a senior individual contributor, he pairs technical leadership with cross-functional collaboration to translate business requirements into reliable, testable systems. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a pragmatic, outcome-oriented approach and a track record of shipping cross-platform features that improve developer and user experiences.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
automated-tests10
rest-api10
javascript10
php10
react10
testing10
redux9
apidoc9
api9
nodejs9
s68
git8
jscript8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-admin
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged to woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 377 reviews, 578 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Moon's contributions primarily focused on modifying and testing PHP code related to WooCommerce's shipping settings and features. They implemented test cases to verify the correct behavior of shipping notes based on the customer's country, specifically concerning the display of label printing options. Additionally, the user added functionality to the Customer Effort Score (CES) system, introducing new functionalities, and also made changes in order to track surveys responses from users. The user also implemented changes to improve the performance of the products APIs.
woocommerce
woocommerce/woocommerce
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:912 reviews, 506 commits, 706 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Moon contributed to the WooCommerce project by addressing bugs and implementing new features within the WooCommerce Admin area. Their work included removing label printing mentions for non-US countries, implementing new features and making them required. The changes involved modifying PHP code files, Javascript and React files, tests and added new REST API endpoints. The user’s commits involved code changes focused on functionality, testing, and potentially API design.
ecommercewordpresswoocommercephpautomattic
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