Slava Mankivski is a senior software engineer with 17 years in web development and over a decade focused on Magento/Adobe Commerce, where he drives scalable B2B features, CI/CD tooling, and legacy cloud migrations. He combines deep PHP backend expertise with a practised role as GitHub gatekeeper—shipping bug fixes, unit tests, and contribution workflow improvements for the widely used magento/magento2 project. At Adobe he’s led technical documentation, recruitment, and cross-team architecture work, ensuring both developer efficiency and security alignment. His open-source contributions span e-commerce internals and IoT/Homebridge integrations, reflecting a willingness to solve both platform-scale and embedded-device problems. Based in Leander, Texas, he pairs hands-on coding with product-aware technical leadership that keeps large codebases healthy and contributors productive.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Center for Professional Development, Stanford Center for Professional Development at Stanford University
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 2250 commits, 212 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Slava's commits focus on bug fixes and unit tests related to the Magento Store application. They are modifying the `Redirect` class within the `Magento/Store` module. The code changes include inverting expected values in unit tests and refactoring the use of custom admin URLs. These modifications indicate a focus on backend logic, testing, and potentially server-side configurations within the Magento e-commerce platform.
Homebridge custom plugin for controlling Powered by Tuya (PBT) devices in HomeKit. This plugin is officially maintained by the Tuya Developer Team.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Slava primarily contributed to the `tuya-homebridge` plugin by adding and modifying features related to Tuya devices, specifically focusing on fan and light control. Their commits added support for new device categories (fskg) and included logic for brightness and light control within the fan accessory (fs category), as well as fixing related issues. They also added a light service to the FanV2 accessory and incorporated updates from the mainline branch and merged the work into a separate category branch, updating a few other accessory files and the logging utility.
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