Naman Malhotra is a software engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building scalable commerce and developer platforms from product concept to global launch. As Co-Founder of Urumi.AI and former Engineering Manager at Automattic, he led teams that powered WooCommerce Payments for 2M+ sites and engineered release pipelines serving 4M+ active stores worldwide. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship—demonstrated by performance, accessibility, and refactor contributions to the flagship WooCommerce repo—with product-led execution that drove millions in merchant retention. Earlier startups include a blockchain remittance platform and an EdTech marketplace, showing a pattern of solving real-world friction points through end-to-end engineering. Comfortable moving between strategic customer-facing work and deep technical delivery, he pairs an MIT Sloan entrepreneurship fellowship with pragmatic engineering instincts. Based in Oregon, he excels at turning conversational product insights into production-grade commerce experiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Fellow Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Fellow Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 268 reviews, 273 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Naman primarily contributed to improving the WooCommerce platform's performance, readability, and functionality. Their work included optimizing database queries, enhancing the user experience for GitHub bug reports, and fixing issues related to product creation and review parameters. They also addressed accessibility issues and refactored code to improve overall maintainability. Furthermore, they were involved in refactoring the codebase to remove dependencies and streamline the codebase for improved functionality.
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 105 commits in 1 year 8 months
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