Oscar Sánchez
Senior Web Engineer at 10up
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Sánchez is a Senior Web Engineer based in Oregon with eight years of experience delivering enterprise WordPress solutions and maintaining production-grade open source plugins. At 10up he architects tailored search experiences using Elasticsearch and contributes core functionality to high-profile projects like ElasticPress and the AMP WordPress plugin. His work spans backend engineering, code review, and improving developer ergonomics—adding autosuggest, refining schema.org handling, and integrating WP-CLI workflows. Comfortable in both client-facing delivery and deep open-source maintenance, he blends practical ops awareness (e.g., prompting for persistent object caching) with a knack for clarifying and refactoring complex plugin logic.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Github Skills (17)
ampl10
amazon-elasticsearch10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
google-amp10
searching10
wp-cli10
dom-manipulation10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
wordpress-plugin10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
phpunit8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
10up/ElasticPress
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 178 commits, 101 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Oscar contributed to the core functionality of the WordPress plugin, ElasticPress, by implementing features and fixing bugs. They added the ability to define an autosuggest selector, updated the facet widget to pass the widget title to the filter, and corrected documentation and tests for highlighting sub-features. The commits indicate active work on the plugin's search and facet features.
queryintranetquery-enginewp-querywordpress-api
Automattic/Co-Authors-Plus
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Multiple bylines and Guest Authors for WordPress
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Oscar primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the WordPress plugin, focusing on guest author functionality within the Co-Authors Plus project. Their work involved handling errors during guest author creation and integrating with WP-CLI for command-line operations. They also added documentation for specific functions and refactored code, renaming commands for improved clarity. The user's changes were centered on extending and refining the plugin's core features related to author management.
authorswordpresswordpress-pluginguestwpvip-plugin
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