Vlad Olaru
Code Wrangler at Automattic
Iași, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Olaru is a pragmatic engineering leader and full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building web and media products, currently "Code Wrangler" at Automattic. He co-founded Pixelgrade and served as CTO, blending hands-on backend work with product and company leadership across a decade. A committed open-source contributor, he has directly improved the WooCommerce admin payments experience, demonstrating attention to secure integrations and UI detail in a high-profile project. Trained in both architecture and computer science, Vlad brings a designer’s sensibility to engineering problems and a collaborative, positive approach to shipping reliable software.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Computer Science College, Piatra NeamtComputer Science, Computer Science at Faculty of Computer Science, UAICArchitect, Architecture, Architect, Architecture at G.M. Cantacuzino Faculty of Architecture, TUIASI
English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
137reputation
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Github Skills (9)
woocommerce10
javascript10
react10
ecommerce10
php8
sorting6
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
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:145 reviews, 105 PRs, 584 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to the WooCommerce admin interface, specifically focusing on the payments welcome page and related functionality. Their work involved replacing URLs and modifying components related to payment integrations, including adding incentive IDs and enhancing URL parameters for secure communication. Additionally, they were involved in merging changes, refactoring code, and fixing code style issues, which suggests they are proficient in the technologies used for the project and maintain the project's coding standard.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
vladolaru/testrepo
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 4 issues in 4 years 1 month
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