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Boro Sitnikovski

Code Wrangler at Automattic

@bor0 Skopje, MK joined Jan 2017

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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
    197contributions
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    medium99
    score393
    Last 90 days
    306contributions
    high127
    medium179
    score560
    Last 12 months
    342contributions
    high146
    medium196
    score634

    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 04 Fri · 15:40
    GitHub high
    Pull request #184 merged into WordPress/wporg-parent-2021:
    Expand a pattern's shortcodes from its own markup
    Sep 04 Fri · 11:09
    Community med
    Submitted pull request #2002 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Meetup: tie the OAuth callback to the request that started it
    Sep 04 Fri · 11:08
    Plugins med
    Submitted pull request #769 to WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
    Meetup OAuth: take the authorization code from the caller
    Sep 04 Fri · 10:29
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #184 to WordPress/wporg-parent-2021:
    Expand a pattern's shortcodes from its own markup
    Sep 04 Fri · 10:15
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #871 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Theme Directory: store the one-line style.css headers as text
    Sep 04 Fri · 09:59
    Community med
    Submitted pull request #2001 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Forms to Drafts, Blocks, Post Types: keep submitted titles as plain text
    Sep 04 Fri · 09:42
    Community med
    Submitted pull request #2000 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Speaker Feedback: display submitted answers as plain text
    Sep 03 Thu · 12:59
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [15132] on Meta SVN:
    Theme Previews: only persist registered style variations in links
    Sep 03 Thu · 11:58
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [15131] on Meta SVN:
    Badge Management: map the badge manager capability against the site
    Sep 03 Thu · 10:39
    Meta high
    Updated the handbook page Deploying WordPress.org on Make WordPress.org.

    Contributor

    7 plugins

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    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    mk_MK Македонски јазик (Macedonian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 6 projects.

    WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.1.x - Development

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