Rafael Funchal
Escalated Happiness Engineer (Internal Support)
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Funchal is a full-stack web developer and Escalated Happiness Engineer at Automattic with 13+ years building WordPress sites, e-commerce, portals and digital products across agencies, publishers and startups. He combines front-end craftsmanship (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) with back-end PHP/MySQL expertise and a deep practical knowledge of WordPress theming and internationalization—evidenced by contributions to the popular wpbrasil/odin theme, adding infinite scroll and translation support. At Automattic he blends customer-facing support, security-minded debugging and internal escalations for WP.cloud, turning real-world site incidents into lasting fixes. Comfortable with SEO, APIs, Git and multimedia workflows, he brings a designer’s eye informed by formal advertising studies and a background in music composition, which often guides his attention to user experience and detail.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel, Publicidade e Propaganda, Bacharel, Publicidade e Propaganda at FAENAC - Faculdade Editora NacionalMechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at ETEC Jorge StreetBacharel, Publicidade e Propaganda, Bacharel, Publicidade e Propaganda at Universidade Paulista
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
theme-development10
wordpress10
php10
html9
css8
translation7
javascript7
app-framework6
web-framework6
application-framework6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wpbrasil/odin
Jan 2013 - Apr 2017
Framework and base theme for development with WordPress.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafael focused on enhancing the WordPress theme by adding features like infinite scroll and translation support. They updated several template files (e.g., `index.php`, `archive.php`, `search.php`) to integrate the new features. The user also addressed minor issues such as fixing comments, correcting sidebar IDs, and adjusting translations, including creating the .pot and .po files for internationalization.
wordpressframework
RafaelFunchal/edit-post-link
Jun 2013 - Aug 2022
A plugin to insert a stylized link to edit posts and pages
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 9 years 2 months
wordpresspluginpostslinkgrav-plugin
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