Vicente Canales
Senior Software Engineer at Topsort
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Summary
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RockstarVicente Canales is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience building high-performance web applications and user-focused interfaces. He combines deep frontend expertise in JavaScript, React and Next.js with backend skills in Node.js, PHP and Go, and has a track record of shipping production features across startups and larger teams. As a long-time contributor to WordPress Core and the high-profile Gutenberg project at Automattic, he’s improved navigation, accessibility and theme UI across widely used WordPress themes and blocks. Vicente’s work spans browser-specific UI fixes to architectural frontend features—demonstrating both attention to pixel-perfect UX (Safari bug fixes, overlay menus) and systemic improvements to editor behavior. Now based in Santiago and currently at Topsort, he blends open-source leadership with pragmatic product delivery and a continuous curiosity for new tools and patterns.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
wordpress10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
html10
wp-theme10
react10
ajax9
jquery9
php6
radio-buttons6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:196 reviews, 85 commits, 105 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vicente primarily contributed to the WordPress Gutenberg project, focusing on frontend enhancements and updates. They implemented responsive navigation features, including an overlay menu and toggle functionality. The user also addressed various issues related to the Navigation Link block and implemented a feature for showing icons and text labels for overlay menus. Furthermore, the user worked on bug fixes and addressed issues related to loading frontend scripts and color adjustments.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
Automattic/themes
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 21 commits, 161 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vicente primarily contributed to the front-end development of WordPress themes. Their work included fixing UI bugs on specific browsers, like fixing the read more button overlap issue on Safari. They added and modified block patterns, added button styles and applied various style changes related to the theme's appearance, including the design of post titles, footers and pullquotes, all using CSS and related theme template files. These changes improved the theme's functionality and design.
wordpresswordpress-themeautomatticwordpress-themesthemes
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