Renon Stewart
Magento Consultant Architect Lead Developer at MagePal Extensions
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRenon Stewart is a Magento Consultant, Architect, and Lead Developer with over a decade of experience building scalable Adobe Commerce solutions for global brands. He combines deep platform expertise—as a top 20 Magento 2 core contributor and one of the world’s top Magento experts on StackOverflow—with hands-on engineering, shipping popular open-source extensions that have been downloaded over 3.6 million times. Renon founded MagePal, where he leads extension development and custom implementations, and maintains widely used tools such as the Gmail/SMTP Magento 2 app that improves transactional email reliability across multiple providers. His background spans high-traffic LAMP systems and API-driven architectures from startups to enterprise, and he’s credited with bug fixes and enhancements in official Magento releases. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often surfaces subtle platform edge cases and optimizations that materially improve performance and deliverability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
sendmail10
send-email10
smtps10
smtp10
magento10
e-mail10
smtpd10
php10
ssl9
xml9
testing8
html6
orders6
payment6
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
magepal/magento2-gmail-smtp-app
Nov 2015 - Aug 2022
Configure Magento 2 to send email using Google App, Gmail, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Microsoft Office365 and many other SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 releases, 218 commits, 32 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Renon primarily contributed to the `magepal/magento2-gmail-smtp-app` repository, focusing on enhancing its functionality and addressing reported issues. Their work involved fixing stream-related errors, adding SSL support, implementing account verification features, and resolving bugs to enable transactional email sending. The user also added support for various SMTP services and improved the testing functionality, indicating a focus on improving the core email sending capabilities of the Magento 2 extension.
adyenoffice365send-emailconfiguremagento2-extension
magepal/magento2-catalog-lazy-load
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
Improve the load time of your Magento 2 categories pages by loading your images on demand with our Lazy Load Extension
Contributions:23 releases, 65 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years 1 month
lazyloadmagepalmagento-extensionon-demandmagento-2
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