Vasily Belolapotkov
Team Lead - WooCommerce Subscriptions at Automattic
Moscow, Moscow, Serbia
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Top SchoolVasily Belolapotkov is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience, currently heading the WooCommerce Subscriptions team at Automattic after leading payments engineering and directing payments efforts. He began as a videoconferencing engineer and transitioned to web development in 2013, bringing deep JavaScript and full-stack expertise to payments integrations. Vasily has hands-on open-source contributions to the official WooCommerce Stripe gateway—improving payment intent handling, webhook validation, and support for custom payment request buttons—which reflects practical experience shipping reliable commerce features at scale. A Master's graduate from Bauman Moscow State Technical University with top marks, he combines technical rigor with product-focused leadership and a pragmatic drive to “make the world a better place to live.”
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, IT systems and Telecommunications, 4.9+, Master's degree, IT systems and Telecommunications, 4.9+ at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Русский, English
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Github Skills (14)
woocommerce10
transaction10
payment-gateway10
php10
gateway10
stripe-api10
javascript8
testing7
graphql6
apollo6
meteor6
phonegap-plugin6
schema6
cordova6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 15 commits, 16 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Vasily focused on enhancing the WooCommerce Stripe payment gateway. Their contributions include adding support for future WooCommerce versions, addressing transaction failures related to trailing slashes, and refactoring payment intent retrieval. They also implemented support for custom payment request buttons and improved the handling of shipping options. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to webhook validation and fixed rendering errors related to the SEPA payment method.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
vbelolapotkov/munchkin-web
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 4 years 4 months
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