Povilas Staškus
Senior IOS Engineer at Automattic
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolPovilas Staškus is a Senior iOS Engineer with 11 years of professional software development experience, currently contributing to Automattic and previously leading iOS teams at Revel Systems. He has deep hands-on experience across large-scale iOS codebases and shipped numerous consumer and enterprise apps from end-to-end as a co‑founder and contractor. Povilas blends strong engineering discipline—refactoring, automation, and architecture—with practical client-facing skills gained building products, gathering requirements, and designing UX. He has taught intermediate iOS courses, mentoring the next generation of developers, and driven team practices that improve collaboration and code quality. An active contributor to the official WordPress iOS repo, he has improved widget data handling and accessibility, showing attention to both performance and inclusive design. Based in Vilnius, he pairs pragmatic product thinking with a knack for simplifying complex mobile engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
Github Skills (7)
swift10
ios10
accessibility9
objective-c9
user-interface8
testing8
xcode7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:443 reviews, 129 commits, 439 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Povilas primarily focused on enhancing the WordPress iOS application, making improvements to the Stats widget. The contributions included refactoring code related to the widget's data, enabling loading and caching of widget data after sign-in, and adding features such as a no-site state message. Testing the StatsWidget data was also a key part of their work. Several commits involved voiceover accessibility enhancements and scaling font issues.
cocoapodsobjective-cwordpressswiftios
staskus/Blog
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
Static blog written in Swift
Contributions:107 commits, 2 PRs, 112 pushes in 3 years 4 months
swiftstatic-blog
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