Seghir Nadir
Software Engineer at Automattic
Barcelona/Oran, Algeria
Summary
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RockstarNadir Seghir is a Senior Software Engineer at Automattic with a decade of experience modernizing customer-facing JavaScript and Checkout experiences for WooCommerce. He blends hands-on front-end work—contributing to high-profile projects like WordPress Gutenberg—with back-end Store API enhancements that improve product schemas and review APIs. As a former interim engineering manager and tech lead, he has scaled teams, reduced knowledge silos, and mentored promoted leaders while owning technical and product roadmaps. He founded a community-focused coworking space, showing entrepreneurial instincts and a knack for building developer ecosystems. Based in Barcelona, he excels at open-source collaboration and integrating third-party ecosystems into performant, distributed systems that serve millions of stores.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
woocommerce10
editors10
javascript10
apidoc10
wordpress10
git-repository10
blocks10
ui-design10
editor10
uid10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
rest-api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 681 reviews, 454 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Seghir contributed to the WooCommerce Blocks project by implementing and enhancing back-end features. Their work included adding functionality to the Store API, specifically incorporating "on_sale" status into the product schema and API responses, which involved modifying files in PHP and JavaScript. Additionally, they implemented and refined functionality for showing reviews per category.
woocommercewoocommerce-blockswordpressgutenberg
WordPress/gutenberg
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 45 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Seghir contributed to the Gutenberg block editor project, primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of specific blocks. They fixed focus issues within the button block, refactored the snackbar component to adhere to the specification, and relaxed restrictions within cover and media+text blocks. Additionally, the user added color support to the separator block and added support for the cover block's resize functionality.
wordpressgutenbergwordpress-plugin
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