Oluwaseun Olorunsola
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolOluwaseun Olorunsola is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lagos with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications and mentoring teams across startups and global companies. Currently at Automattic, he brings practical expertise in integrating complex front-end tooling and build systems—evidenced by his significant contributions to WooCommerce where he integrated a block-based email editor into the core and reworked build and permission workflows. His background spans embedded roles at Dolby and Andela and leadership positions early in his career, giving him both executional depth and team-facing leadership. He pairs formal cloud and mobile web training from Udacity with an HND in Computer Engineering, reflecting continuous upskilling. Known for translating product needs into maintainable code, he has a particular knack for solving integration and build-time challenges that often hide in large open-source projects.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Cloud Developer, Nanodegree, Cloud Developer at UdacityHND, Computer Engineering, Distinction, HND, Computer Engineering, Distinction at Lagos City Polytechnic
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Github Skills (19)
woocommerce10
javascript10
wordpress10
php10
react10
webpack9
typescript9
webpacker9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
scs8
sc8
pnpm8
angular6
ionic-framework6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 25 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Oluwaseun contributed significantly to integrating a block-based email editor within the WooCommerce core. Their work involved adding email editor-related packages, integrating them into the WooCommerce project, and setting up build processes using pnpm and Webpack. They also made modifications to the email editor's PHP files, JavaScript code, and style sheets, including the integration of a rich text editor. Additionally, they addressed permission issues and refactored package initialization to fix loading problems.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
triple0t/square-friends
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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