Slobodan Manić
Podcast Host at No Hacks
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolSlobodan Manić is a seasoned product and growth technologist with 13 years of experience building and optimizing web experiences from front-end UI to platform-level WordPress contributions. Based in Porto, he co-founded Web Performance Tools and builds practical SaaS like Coheseo and Podpacer while also hosting the No Hacks podcast, where he distills conversations with growth marketers, designers and experimenters into actionable tactics. A long-time WordPress core contributor and collaborator on Automattic’s widely used _s starter theme, he blends open-source craftsmanship with data-driven CRO and performance engineering. His background spans CTO roles, consulting for companies like Instacart, and hands-on WooCommerce/payment integrations—an uncommon mix that lets him ship both strategic roadmaps and production-ready code.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
None, Architecture, None, Architecture at Univerzitet u NišuConversion optimization minidegree, Conversion optimization, Conversion optimization minidegree, Conversion optimization at CXL Institute
English, Serbian, Croatian
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Github Skills (8)
theme-development10
wordpress10
php10
template-tags10
template-engine10
templater10
html9
css8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/_s
Mar 2013 - Jun 2014
Hi. I'm a starter theme called _s, or underscores, if you like. I'm a theme meant for hacking so don't use me as a Parent Theme. Instead try turning me into the next, most awesome, WordPress theme out there. That's what I'm here for.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Slobodan contributed to the _s starter theme, primarily focusing on improving the template's functionality and code quality. They fixed bugs related to the title attributes, optimized the 404 template by conditionally displaying the categories widget, and corrected formatting. They also created a new template file for search results and added functionality to the entry date display.
wordpresswordpress-themeturningunderscoresstarter-theme
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-klarna
Nov 2014 - Mar 2018
A Klarna payments integration for WooCommerce.
Contributions:40 releases, 894 commits, 79 PRs in 3 years 4 months
paymentsecommercewordpresswoocommerceklarna
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