Slava Abakumov
Product Lead at Awesome Motive, Inc.
Netherlands
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Top SchoolSlava Abakumov is a product-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and shipping web products from code to customer in the Netherlands. Currently a Product Lead at Awesome Motive and Technical Lead at JewelryThis, he progressed through hands-on engineering and management roles, combining deep backend WordPress expertise with team and product ownership. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like CMB2 and BuddyPress, where his bug fixes, filters, and test improvements have tightened code quality in widely used WordPress developer toolkits. Known for pragmatic problem solving and a “be good, have fun, create things” ethos, he bridges developer ergonomics and product outcomes. His background in international economics and long tenure in distributed teams hints at a pragmatic, user-aware approach to product decisions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master English International Economics, Master English International Economics at Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics
English, Ukrainian, Russian, German
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
metaboxes10
back-end-development10
wordpress10
buddypress10
cmb210
php10
custom-fields10
wordpress-plugin10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
co9
laravel6
android-activity6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
CMB2/CMB2
Apr 2015 - Jan 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Slava primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the CMB2 WordPress plugin. Their work included addressing issues related to group removal confirmation, fixing typos in comments, and resolving a JavaScript error. They also made improvements to the tests and updated the project's dependencies.
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buddypress/buddypress
Dec 2016 - Dec 2020
BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 41 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Slava primarily contributed to the BuddyPress back-end, focusing on improving code quality, and adding new features. Their work involved standardizing verbiage and introducing filters for settings and functions. The user also addressed bugs and improved the codebase by introducing filters in `bp_get_group_permalink()`, `bp_get_thread_recipients_count()` as well as the `BP_Messages_Notice` class.
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