Oleksandr Aratovskyi
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Top SchoolOleksandr Aratovskyi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kyiv with 10+ years of hands-on experience building and leading backend teams, currently contributing at Automattic. He combines deep PHP/MySQL expertise and framework fluency (Slim, Yii, Laravel, Symfony) with practical DevOps and cloud skills—containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD and AWS—earned while migrating services to microservices and high-performance rewrites in Go. As a pragmatic architect and mentor, he has set up SDLC processes, led scrum/Kanban teams, and onboarded developers while keeping a strong focus on test-driven development and SOLID design. He also contributes to high-profile open-source projects like WooCommerce, where he has shipped front-end payments UX improvements, demonstrating full-stack versatility beyond core backend work. Known for taking responsibility on product-focused teams, he prefers work that clearly improves user outcomes and scales in production.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Program Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Program Engineering at Odessa State Polytechnic University
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German
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Github Skills (10)
html10
woocommerce10
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
ecommerce10
php5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:216 reviews, 2 commits, 51 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WooCommerce platform. They implemented and styled UI components related to payments, including a new payments menu, APM toggles, and a FAQ block. Their work involved refactoring code, addressing review comments, and fixing styling issues. The user also made updates to the WooPayments branding and removed a BNPL (Klarna) apm from the welcome page.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
oaratovskyi/keyring
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Keyring is an authentication framework for WordPress. It comes with definitions for a variety of HTTP Basic, OAuth1 and OAuth2 web services. Use it as a common foundation for working with other web services from within WordPress code.
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
keyringwordpressphpauthenticationoauth1
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