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Bio

Hi there!

My name is Boro Sitnikovski. I have a Master’s degree in Informatics and work professionally as a Software Engineer.

I work at Automattic. I contribute to a lot of open-source projects. That is because I am a strong believer in open source. I am happy to do this, knowing that the code I write runs on millions of machines and has a positive impact. I also learn a lot on the way to doing this.

Author of:
– Introducing Software Verification with Dafny Language
– Introduction to Dependent Types with Idris
– Introducing Blockchain with Lisp
– The Mirrors In Us

Interests

life, psychology, mathematics

Badges

CODE
3 badges
Core Contributor '17 Meta Contributor '26 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
1 badge
Documentation Contributor '17
COMMUNITY
1 badge
WordCamp Speaker '23
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
Translation Contributor '18

Current Job

Code Wrangler
Jan 2017 – Present
Automattic · Full-time
DevEx: Designing and contributing to projects aimed at enhancing the engineering culture, which includes hiring, mentoring, conducting workshops, tooling, and refining processes. WooCommerce: Improvements, bug fixes, architecture, and tooling for core, extensions, and woo.com. Technologies: PHP, SQL, JS, C (php-src), Lua, Docker, Claude/Codex.

Key Accomplishments

Certificate: EMC E20-120 Content Management Foundations u2013 PearsonVUE OIC, 2011
Certificate: Introduction to Philosophy u2013 The University of Edinburgh (Coursera), 2022
Certificate: META101x: Philosophy and Critical Thinking u2013 The University of Queensland (edX), 2023
Certificate: Introduction to Psychology u2013 Yale University (Coursera), 2023
Acquired 3rd place at XVII State Programming Contest u2013 ZIM/PMF, Berovo, 2006
Acquired 4th place at the 1st Republic Informatics Contest u2013 Alexandria, Skopje, 2007
Acquired 1st place (harder group) at XV Regional Programming Contest u2013 ZIM/PMF, Skopje, 2007
Bachelor's degree in Informatics, FON University, 2015/2022. Theses: Programming in Haskell using algebraic data structures; Implementing a programming language and a theorem prover
Master's degree in Informatics (Software Engineering), University of Skopje, 2020. Thesis: Formal verification of Instruction Sets in Virtual Machines
Published paper: PubSub implementation in Haskell with formal verification in Coq, 17th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies, 2020
Published paper: Implementing virtual organizations in the Western Balkan Countries (WB6), International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies, 2020
Published paper: Formalizing line editors in Coq, arXiv:2006.03525, 2020
Published paper: Models for software verification: Proving program correctness, ICONBEST, 2020
Published paper: Tutorial implementation of Hoare logic in Haskell, arXiv:2101.11320, 2021
Published paper: Integrating a Virtual Machine on a system-on-a-chip, ICEST u2013 IEEE, 2022 (also featured on Hackaday magazine)
Published paper: Budge: A programming language and a theorem prover, Central Asian Journal of Mathematical Theory and Computer Sciences, 4(4), 41-45, 2023
Authored book: Introduction to Dependent Types with Idris, Amazon KDP, 2018; re-published with Apress, 2023
Authored book: Introducing Blockchain with Lisp, Apress (Springer), 2021
Authored book: Introducing Software Verification with Dafny Language, Apress (Springer), 2022
Authored book: The Mirrors in Us, Lulu Press, 2025

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
270contributions
high98
medium172
score466
Last 90 days
527contributions
high196
medium331
score919
Last 12 months
577contributions
high224
medium353
score1025

WordPress releases

Contributed to 11 releases
  • 7.1
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.4
  • 6.3
  • 5.3
  • 5.1
  • 4.9
  • 4.8
  • 4.7

Contributions

Type
September 2026
Sep 30 Wed · 08:03
Community med
Submitted pull request #2137 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: let organizers check in attendees, including walk-ins
Sep 30 Wed · 07:41
Community med
Submitted pull request #2136 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: add a "Members" link to the site header
Sep 29 Tue · 13:31
Community high
Merged pull request #1749 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
SSLCommerz: add Live environment guards and structured logging
Sep 29 Tue · 09:59
Community med
Submitted pull request #2135 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: printable event flyer
Sep 29 Tue · 09:28
Community med
Submitted pull request #2134 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: let organizers tag events with topics
Sep 29 Tue · 09:08
Community med
Created issue #2133 in the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Groups: printable event flyer
Sep 29 Tue · 09:08
Community med
Created issue #2132 in the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Groups: let organizers tag events with topics
Sep 28 Mon · 14:36
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Call for testing: WordPress community groups on events.WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress.org:
🎉❤️💯
Sep 28 Mon · 14:36
Community med
Closed issue #1892 on the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Let organizers save an event as a template and create new events…
Sep 28 Mon · 14:36
Community high
Merged pull request #2128 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: let organizers start a new event from a past one

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Translations

1 locale
mk_MK Македонски јазик (Macedonian) Translation Contributor