Peter Fabian
Woo AI Lead at Automattic
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolPeter Fabian is an experienced software engineer with 11 years of hands-on development and distributed team leadership, based in Copenhagen. He blends strong backend expertise—contributing performance-focused improvements to widely used WooCommerce components like the Action Scheduler and core plugin—with front-end sensibilities demonstrated in Storefront theme UX enhancements. Comfortable optimizing database-backed queues and refactoring legacy JavaScript, he has a proven knack for squeezing performance and simplifying maintenance in production systems. Trained in computational linguistics (MSc) and computer science, he combines analytical rigor with a curiosity-driven approach to learning and exploration. An advocate for pragmatic, measurable improvements, he often surfaces non-obvious gains such as query-reordering and cleanup refactors that yield outsized speedups.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) [Mgr], Computational Linguistics, Master of Science (MSc) [Mgr], Computational Linguistics at Charles university, PragueGymnazium KukucinovaBachelor of Science (BSc) [Bc], General Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) [Bc], General Computer Science at Univerzita Karlova v PrazeFront Arena Base certification, Front Arena Base certification at Front Arena university
Slovak, English, Czech, Danish
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Github Skills (17)
woocommerce10
javascript10
storefront10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
mysql10
wordpress10
css10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
performance-optimization10
database-design10
rest-api10
versioning8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
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:18 releases, 316 reviews, 1262 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the WooCommerce plugin, focusing on back-end development tasks. They implemented filter and data sanitation within existing functions, and added functionality, such as features related to range downloads. The user made changes to database-related code, and also updated the code for handling payment gateways.
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woocommerce/woocommerce-admin
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged to woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:243 commits, 45 PRs, 153 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the development of reporting REST API extensions within the woocommerce/woocommerce-admin repository. This included adding new functionality and code to the includes/data-stores directory. The changes involved modifications to several PHP files, demonstrating the user's proficiency in back-end development. Overall, the user's work focused on expanding the reporting capabilities of the WooCommerce Admin plugin.
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