Nauris Pūķis
Senior Full Stack Developer at Automattic
Latvia
Summary
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RockstarNauris Pūķis is a Senior Full Stack Developer with 11 years of experience, currently building and maintaining web platform features at Automattic from Latvia. He brings deep WordPress and performance-focused expertise, having refactored critical CSS generation and improved lazy-loading image behavior in the high-profile Jetpack project. His background spans hands-on engineering and short-term leadership roles within Automattic and earlier entrepreneurial experience founding ThemeVillage, showing both product instincts and technical ownership. Nauris combines front-end optimization skills with back-end architecture knowledge, enabling measurable improvements in site speed and reliability. Colleagues value his pragmatic refactors and ability to untangle legacy code while keeping compatibility with broad WordPress ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Latvian
Stackoverflow
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31answers
45questions
gruntjs
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coffeescript
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Github Skills (22)
jetpack10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
lazy-loading10
wordpress-plugin10
lazyload10
coffeescript9
javascript9
gruntjs9
css9
nodejs9
js9
typescripts8
react8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:499 reviews, 122 commits, 153 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nauris primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Critical CSS generation process within the Jetpack Boost plugin. Their contributions involved restructuring code, moving classes, and abstracting functionalities related to Critical CSS notifications and generation. The user also contributed to the lazy loading image feature, ensuring its compatibility with Jetpack and resolving issues related to its toggle behavior, as well as updating the image guide.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
pyronaur/pyronaur.com
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
My blog
Contributions:3 PRs, 121 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
my-blog
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