Nikos Tsekouras
JavaScript Engineer at Automattic
Volos Municipality, Thessaly and Central Greece
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Top SchoolNikos Tsekouras is a JavaScript engineer with 10 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and shipping user-focused front-end features at scale. Currently at Automattic, he has strong expertise in component-driven UI work demonstrated by notable contributions to WordPress Gutenberg—improving block editor UX, media integration, and control components. His background spans backend systems with Node.js, MongoDB and messaging (RabbitMQ) from a senior role at Centaur Analytics, plus years as a freelance and agency developer, giving him end-to-end product perspective. Based in Volos, Greece, he combines remote-first collaboration skills with a knack for refactoring and practical UI improvements that subtly lift developer and user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
7.3, Computer Engineering, 7.3, Computer Engineering at ATEI Thessalonikis
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
wordpress10
react10
user-interface9
ui-design9
interface-design9
css9
html9
angular6
file-upload6
android6
typescript6
onchange6
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
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:3 releases, 3947 reviews, 667 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nikos primarily contributed to front-end development, focusing on the UI components of the Gutenberg block editor. Their work involved consolidating and refactoring block copy actions, improving the appearance of various UI elements, such as captions, and creating features such as the addition of a caption button. They also updated the font-size picker, updated button, video and audio controls, and enhanced the site editor's navigation, and integrated the Openverse media library, showcasing proficiency in component design and user interface enhancements within the context of the WordPress block editor.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
ntsekouras/gutenberg
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Contributions:65 pushes, 6 branches in 14 days
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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