Ricardo Metring
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolRicardo Metring is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building user-focused products from startup MVPs to platform-scale features used by 800K+ merchants. At Automattic he led payments work for WooCommerce, shipping Apple Pay, Google Pay and multi-currency support while coordinating security patching and release safety across payment stacks. As co-founder of Criar.io he built a React-based design editor and drove an SEO strategy that generated hundreds of thousands of monthly organic users, leading to acquisition. He was the first engineering hire at Branch.io, delivering the initial dashboard and website that supported early customer growth and fundraising. An active contributor to the WooCommerce Stripe gateway, he focuses on the intersection of product, UX and engineering to take early-stage ideas from 0 to 1. Based in Paraná (UTC-3), he blends hands-on backend work with product-minded thinking and measurable growth outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Information Technology / Software Engineering, Undergraduate, Information Technology / Software Engineering at Universidade Federal do ParanáComputer Science, Computer Science at City College of San Francisco
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
woocommerce10
payment-gateway10
php10
gateway10
stripe-api10
javascript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 300 reviews, 132 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily worked on the Stripe payment gateway for WooCommerce, focusing on the payment request button functionality. Their commits addressed bug fixes related to handling payment requests in specific regions like Puerto Rico and ensuring proper error handling for unsupported countries. They also made updates to the product version, improved the logic for refunds, and implemented security enhancements.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
ricardo/ricardo.github.io
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 4 years 10 months
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