Romario Raffington
Co-Founder at Norus Technologies
Jamaica
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Top SchoolRomario Raffington is a software engineer and serial founder with 11+ years building resilient, production-grade systems across payments, risk modeling, and consumer apps. Currently a Co-Founder and serving engineering leadership roles, he previously drove billing and payments infrastructure at Automattic—shipping metered billing, paid newsletters, and AI Assistant features—and contributed maintenance-focused fixes to the flagship woocommerce repo. He blends backend systems engineering (queue orchestration, retries, rate limiting) with data-driven product work, having built alternative-data risk engines and LLM/OCR-powered content pipelines. Comfortable operating across compute, storage, and CDN layers, he also has hands-on experience improving deployment reliability by addressing subtle PHP opcache path issues in open-source code. Based in Jamaica, Romario pairs startup grit and venture-backed product experience with a strong mentorship and CI/CD mindset that accelerates delivery and reduces operational risk.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
React Nanodegree, Computer Science, React Nanodegree, Computer Science at UdacityBachelor of Science (BSc) in Computing, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computing, Computer Science at University of Technology, Jamaica
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Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
woocommerce10
file-handling10
php10
refactoring10
remote-file-inclusion10
callback6
expo6
asyncstorage6
nodejs6
npm6
javascript6
react-native6
react-redux6
redux6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Romario's commits primarily focused on refactoring the codebase by replacing relative include paths with absolute ones. This change aimed to address issues related to the opcache in PHP, which was causing problems during deployment. Additionally, the user replaced `dirname(__FILE__)` with `__DIR__` and included the necessary directory separator to ensure correct file paths, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability and preventing potential future errors. The changes touched various files within the `woocommerce` plugin, indicating a broad understanding of the project's structure.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
romarioraffington/react-mybooks
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:138 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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