Riad Benguella
Software Engineer at Automattic
Polop, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRiad Benguella is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience, combining deep frontend expertise with full-stack architecture and product-minded engineering. As a lead developer on WordPress Gutenberg at Automattic, he helped architect the block editor and guided multiple teams and contributors through its evolution and site-editing modernization. He brings a strong focus on performance, maintainability and extensibility—evidenced by performance tooling and CI workflows he added to high-profile projects like WooCommerce. A former CEO and serial founder, he pairs hands-on coding with product leadership and mentoring across distributed teams. Based in Spain, he contributes actively to open source and is comfortable moving between technical strategy and implementation. Colleagues note his ability to translate broad product vision into pragmatic, measurable engineering improvements.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Computer Science, Engineer Computer Science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonEngineer Computer Science Software Engineering, Engineer Computer Science Software Engineering at Sciences and Technology University of Oran - Mohamed Boudiaf (USTO-MB)
Arabic, French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
woocommerce10
github-ci10
javascript10
cicd10
performance-testing10
front-end-development10
automated-tests10
githubaction-workflow10
react10
ecommerce9
automation9
automations9
nodejs8
css7
php7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 releases, 6866 reviews, 2647 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Riad's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the block editor for WordPress. They were involved in the integration of the `@wordpress/primitives` package by importing its components and the use of the `@wordpress/icons` library. The user also added a range of new block templates and template parts to the project. The user also worked on enhancing the navigation menus with a full site-editing approach.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
woocommerce/woocommerce
Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Performance Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Performance EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Riad primarily contributed to improving the performance of the WooCommerce platform by adding tools and workflows to track and compare performance metrics. They implemented a tool and a CI workflow for performance testing, including the use of a test runner and the ability to compare PR performance against the trunk. The user also integrated logging of performance metrics to CodeVitals, streamlining the performance monitoring and analysis process.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
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