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Currently, I’m an architect – I create coding standards & decide what is secure and what is not. Earlier, I spent 3 years (2011-2014) in Silicon Valley, San Francisco & Sydney, built there funded IT startups & worked in medium-size corporation.

Web engineering skills:
PHP7 (15 years), Symfony, PhpUnit, xDebug, MVC+Templates, SEO
WordPress (13 years), Theming, Avada, WooCommerce
HTML5, CSS4, WebGL/Canvas 3D, MVP
API, RESTful, SOAP, WSDL, XML, JSON
jQuery (11 years), QUnit+Sinon.JS, HighCharts, gRaphael, LocalStorage
BootStrap, Travis CI
Python 3+Django framework
JAVA EE, jBoss

Database engineering skills:
MySQL/MariaDB (15 years), PostgreSQL, NoSQL – MongoDB

Mobile engineering skills:
Native apps embedded via HTML5+JavaScript

SCM skills:
Git (6 years), SVN, Mercurial

Project management skills:
Youtrack+UpSource (JetBrains), JIRA+FishEye (Atlassian), Asana, Bitrix24
Time Doctor, Google Sheets, Balsamiq

Development process:
Extreme programming (XP), Agile, Scrum, Sprint, Kanban

Security & network engineering skills:
Internet Voting, Information Security, Cryptography
Cisco CCNA (Cisco Routing & Switching)
Zend Server, Ubuntu Linux, Amazon AWS, S3, CDN, Microsoft Azure
DirectAdmin, CPanel, Plesk
Varnish, Puppet, NFS

Software engineering skills:
C#, Java SE, C++, C, ASM

Marketing skills:
I worked on promoting Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter pages for over 10 projects. With $ 150 budged I reached 243,000 people audience on Facebook in age group 17-29, and 2,200 of them completed registration process. Also I’ve successfully reached 300,000 views and 4,000 shares of Facebook story with $0 budget in 9 days.

Team-leading skills:
13 years’ experience working as a team-leader (teams of 3-25 people). Experience organizing IT hackathons, testathons & trainings (for 100+ participants)

Interests

PSR-2, PSR-4 Autoloaders, Envato, WordPress, PHP, Clean Code, OOP, MVC, Semantic Versioning, Unicode CLDR

WordPress Origin Story

It just evolved naturally – I needed a content-management system, that is a standard in the world. I’ve been working with few PHP CMS’es and Frameworks since early 2004, and use WordPress for my first blog in 2008, but only since 2011 I’m fully switched to WordPress to develop hi-quality systems as a WordPress plugins, just because WordPress is so well-prepared to start.

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Software Architect, CEO
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July 2023
Jul 05 Wed · 15:54
Core med
Created ticket #58718 on Core Trac:
A million dollars security question to Matt Mullenweg about Libsodium ...
December 2020
Dec 07 Mon · 14:03
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress: Blue sky thinking, on the site Make WordPress Training:
@evarlese - I just wanted to point out, that the only reason why I went…
October 2020
Oct 01 Thu · 10:42
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@joostdevalk This may have an issue with template loading procedures: 'wp_print_scripts(' - exist for scripts.…
September 2020
Sep 22 Tue · 12:23
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Dual licensing Gutenberg under GPL v2.0 and MPL v2.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Finally some great news. Actually that is one of the reasons why in SolidMVC micro-framework…
August 2020
Aug 22 Sat · 18:29
Forums med
Posted a reply to [Envato Toolkit] Uninstall plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are no traces in database. This reply was modified 7 minutes ago by KestutisIT.
July 2020
Jul 07 Tue · 13:41
Forums med
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Appears this Adning vulnerability gets viral already. The vulnerability found in the way it handles…
Jul 07 Tue · 12:08
Forums med
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So only the /wp-admin folder files: /wp-update%2E/ sub-folder, wp-update executable, wp-update.log and wp-update.php had affected.…
Jul 07 Tue · 11:42
Forums med
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Notes of future security preventions: I've also created a new feature request ticket for WordPress,…
Jul 07 Tue · 11:30
Forums med
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@artprojectgroup - can you also please post full list of plugins on your website on…
Jul 06 Mon · 16:58
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Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@artprojectgroup , we removed the whole website probably until hacker was done. So we had…

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