Thomas Shellberg
Full Stack Developer at Progressus.io
Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Shellberg is a full-stack JavaScript engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in AI-enabled e-commerce and high-performance WooCommerce solutions. He shipped enterprise-grade features at Progressus—fraud blocking, analytics for upsells, and Black Friday optimizations that helped drive 60% YoY revenue growth—and was a founding member of Automattic’s Woo AI team, delivering AI product-creation tools used by ~10,000 stores and a WordPress.com AI Site Builder that lifted conversions 5–20%. Equally comfortable across PHP, MySQL and React, he modernized the WooCommerce Stripe gateway UI and introduced React Testing Library coverage to core plugins. A pragmatic product-builder and founder of the Emberglow React Native app, he combines rapid experimentation with careful data-driven optimization to solve real business problems. Based in Germany, he’s open to roles at the intersection of full-stack, AI, and e-commerce where impact and scale matter.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Chandler High School
Stackoverflow
31reputation
3kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (19)
woocommerce10
javascript10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
payment-gateway10
php10
react10
ml9
aiml9
react-testing9
ai9
react-testing-library9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
webpacker8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Apr 2019 - Nov 2021
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the front-end components of the WooCommerce Stripe payment gateway. They implemented a React-based settings wrapper for UPE, including initial setup and a basic settings manager. Furthermore, the user addressed dependencies for script enqueueing and resolved an issue related to WP dependencies. These changes indicate a focus on modernizing the payment gateway's settings interface.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
woocommerce/woocommerce
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
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:111 reviews, 2 commits, 44 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thomas significantly contributed to the Woo AI plugin within the WooCommerce platform. Their work included adding new features such as a "Write With AI" button for product short descriptions and integrating a tone of voice option for AI-generated content. They also refactored settings pages and fixed saving bugs related to the Woo AI plugin, demonstrating proficiency in both front-end and back-end aspects of the project. Furthermore, the user introduced testing with React Testing Library and addressed regressions, enhancing code quality and maintainability.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
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