Néstor Vilchez
Developer at Automattic
Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
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Top SchoolNéstor Vilchez is a pragmatic developer with 12+ years building robust backend systems and readable, maintainable .NET code, currently contributing to WooCommerce at Automattic. A Telecommunications Engineer by training, he moved from desktop (WinForms, WPF) to web and large-scale open-source projects, applying strong testing and refactoring discipline learned at companies like Stack Overflow and Toptal. He has hands-on experience modernizing legacy codebases, improving test suites (notably adapting WooCommerce Action Scheduler tests to PHP 8) and shaping dependency injection and autoloading in complex PHP ecosystems. Equally at home optimizing for clarity as for performance, he moonlights building tiny, efficient systems on an MSX in Z80 assembler—evidence of a deep, language-agnostic appreciation for low-level constraints. Based in Palma, Spain, he combines pragmatic engineering, long-term maintenance focus, and a passion for elegant, human-readable programs.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Github Skills (45)
unit-testing10
woocommerce10
linq10
wordpress10
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passwords10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Mar 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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 729 reviews, 962 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Néstor focused on modifying and refactoring the WooCommerce codebase, with an emphasis on the internal workings of the system. The contributions included moving code related to PSR4 autoloading and the dependency injection container. They also modified code in areas such as orders and the REST API, focusing on the functionality of the product attributes lookup table and the display of product and order information.
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woocommerce/action-scheduler
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
A scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large queues of tasks in WordPress. Specifically designed for distribution in WordPress plugins (and themes) - no server access required.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 11 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Néstor primarily focused on improving the unit testing infrastructure for the `action-scheduler` repository. Their work included adapting tests to PHP 8, modifying bootstrap files, adding installation scripts for the WordPress test library, and updating dependencies such as PHPUnit. They also fixed coding standards, merged branches, and addressed deprecation notices related to PHP 8.1, demonstrating a strong focus on test suite maintenance and compatibility.
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