Taha Paksu
Code Wrangler - Escargot at Freelance Web Development
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolTaha Paksu is a senior software engineer and payments-focused code leader with 14 years of experience building e-commerce and merchant tooling used by millions. Currently a Code Wrangler at Automattic leading Woo Core’s Order Fulfillment Entity, he has deep hands-on expertise across PHP, React, JS, REST APIs and payments integrations like Stripe. His background spans embedded device protocols and POS systems—designing offline order management, fiscal reporting, and device management platforms—which gives him a rare blend of backend infrastructure and hardware-aware engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved WooCommerce’s admin UI, international currency handling and locale support for one of the most widely used ecommerce platforms. Known for shipping pragmatic developer tools and automation (from Playwright migrations to VSCode test runners and Stripe card fillers), he combines product-minded delivery with operational ownership and a taste for subtle engineering humor.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Cankiri Suleyman Demirel Fen LisesiBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical & Electronical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical & Electronical Engineering at Erciyes Üniversitesi
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
woocommerce10
jquery10
api-design10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
phpunit10
php10
mysql9
delete-files9
javascript9
ajax9
json9
laravel9
forms9
css9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 13 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Taha primarily focused on enhancing the WooCommerce admin interface by addressing currency display issues and implementing new features. They refactored code related to order reports and added currency formatting to activity cards. The user also contributed to the internationalization of the platform by adding a new locale-info file, improving currency handling for different locales.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
tpaksu/qrcode
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
qrcodeimage-recognitionrecognitiondecoderencoder
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