Raitis Sevelis
Head Of Product at Riga Nordic University
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolRaitis Sevelis is a product leader with over a decade of experience shaping WordPress-focused B2B and B2C products, notably driving WPBakery’s growth from 30,000 customers to powering 5M+ websites and pioneering UX innovations like the first Frontend Editor and Loop Builder. He combines deep expertise in e-commerce, UX and scaling cross-functional teams with hands-on product design that influenced broader WordPress industry patterns. As Head of Product at Indystack he delivered an exceptionally user-friendly hosting experience reflected in an NPS of 82, and he has a track record of launching partnership ecosystems—over 1,000 third-party extensions for WPBakery. Raitis also brings academic rigor as a lecturer in AI, digital marketing and e-commerce, translating practical product lessons into curricula and public talks at WordCamps. Based in Riga, he blends entrepreneurial roots from running a boutique design agency with strategic product leadership across platform and hosting businesses, often consulted during early-stage platform designs such as Gutenberg.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Information Technologies (unfinished), IT, Doctor of Information Technologies (unfinished), IT at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)Master's degree, Engineer in Business Informatics, With distinction, Master's degree, Engineer in Business Informatics, With distinction at Rigas Tehniska UniversitateSecondary and Professional, Computer Science, Secondary and Professional, Computer Science at Riga Technical SchoolSecondary degree, Primary and Secondary school courses, Secondary degree, Primary and Secondary school courses at Riga 45 Secondary School
English, Russian, Latvian
Github Skills (5)
wordpress10
drag-and-drop10
visual-composer10
wordpress-plugin9
gutenberg6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RaitisSevelis/builder
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Visual Composer Website Builder is a drag and drop editor for WordPress.
Contributions:40 pushes in 1 year 2 months
composerdragwordpresssummernotegutenberg
RaitisSevelis/visual-composer-starter
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Visual Composer Starter theme for WordPress designed to be a perfect companion for a simple and good looking website or blog.
Contributions:29 branches in 1 day
wordpress-apiwordpressphpwordpress-themeperfect
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