KestutisIT (@kestutisit) – WordPress user profile

Bio

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.

Member Since: April 27th, 2015
Location: Lithuania
Website: KestutisIT.com
Job Title: Software Architect, CEO
Employer: KestutisIT
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Created ticket #58718 on Core Trac:
A million dollars security question to Matt Mullenweg about Libsodium ...
1 year ago
Committed [2521603] to Plugins SVN:
WP 5.7 support
3 years ago
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…
4 years ago
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.…
4 years ago
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…
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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…
4 years ago
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.…
4 years ago
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,…
4 years ago
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…
4 years ago
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…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
And this is server logs. Is it possible that somehow WP-CRON got vulnerable or is…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Additional question - if we would add .htaccess / .htapasswd security to /wp-admin/ folder, is…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Things we discovered: 1. wp-admin/wp-update.php calls are tracked in apache access log on June 30th,…
4 years ago
Created ticket #5302 on Meta Trac:
Five for the future does not support "GPL compliant"
4 years ago
Created ticket #5301 on Meta Trac:
Is w.org and WordPress dropped security analysis, bug bounty support
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So, on 2020-06-30 4:30 AM EEST, two new files were created by hacker. wp-admin/config.json: {…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So we discovered that wp-admin/wp-update.php also has been hacked and has eval(...) in it. Also…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So we installed recommeded "WP Control" plugin to see all WP Cronjobs. I see that…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It appears that the hackers may be using https://ahrefs.com/robot to detonate the WP Cronjob.
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yui, that is a serious INPUT: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ce0cd956dd06551db0b3184d42087dd6399252106a690be5d703691f4e316c9a/detection It says it a crypto/gold miner.
4 years ago
Posted a reply to /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Steven, can you give more details/proves that would confirm that this is a trully hack?…
4 years ago
Created a topic, /wp-admin/WP-UPDATE – a virus?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have Ubuntu 16.04 and DA updated to last version. We…
4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updating the Coding standards for modern PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
add_action('action_name', array(__CLASS__, 'method_name'));
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updating the Coding standards for modern PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
PSR-4 Autoloaders is the most easiest to pickup, so I would ask to have: /Models/Car/GreatCar.php…
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Needs feedback: Proposal for improving the Dashboard Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
There is often a VERY STRONG unofficial meetups, that have a lot of contributors of…
5 years ago
Created a topic, Bugs in newest version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Here is PHP bug report (XDEBUG enabled): ( ! ) Notice…
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Announcing the new #core-css Slack channel, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I want to put a note, that CSS4 Variables is a must theses days. You…
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Devchat after the hour: November 20, on the site Make WordPress Core:
You guys totally 'outdated' in versioning world. There is world-accepted semantic versioning standard, used now…
5 years ago
Created ticket #48398 on Core Trac:
WordPress UPLOAD+ACTIVATE fails if more than one plugin in plugin's folder
5 years ago
Reopened ticket #48356 on Core Trac:
wp_create_nonce(...) and check_ajax_referer(...) fails on the 2nd AJAX ...
5 years ago
Reopened ticket #48356 on Core Trac:
wp_create_nonce(...) and check_ajax_referer(...) fails on the 2nd AJAX ...
5 years ago
Created ticket #48356 on Core Trac:
wp_create_nonce(...) and check_ajax_referer(...) fails on the 2nd AJAX ...
5 years ago
Reopened ticket #48098 on Core Trac:
ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined even if it is enqueued ...
5 years ago
Reopened ticket #48098 on Core Trac:
ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined even if it is enqueued ...
5 years ago
Created ticket #48099 on Core Trac:
get_stylesheet_directory() and get_stylesheet_directory() are ...
5 years ago
Created ticket #48098 on Core Trac:
ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined even if it is enqueued
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Community team update – 15-08-2019, on the site Team Updates:
How to handle conflict of interest situations Correct link is https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/08/15/discussion-how-to-handle-conflict-of-interest-situations/
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Community team update – 15-08-2019, on the site Team Updates:
The link is broken - it goes to 'pwa-retrospecive' page.
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Plugin and Theme Checksums Project – Announcement, on the site WP-CLI:
This is a case of MUST-READ that makes me really worried of possible EVIL message…
5 years ago
Committed [2138049] to Plugins SVN:
@mariusslo added as contributor to readme.txt
5 years ago
Committed [2136908] to Plugins SVN:
= EFAQ 6.1.8 = * Minor HTML improvements. * Segregated core and plugin ...
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I suggest to have at least one LTS (Long-Term-Support) version per generation (WP 5.X, WP…
5 years ago
Created ticket #4662 on Meta Trac:
A security risk on W.org plugins repository - no checksum / ...
5 years ago
Created a topic, Very light, perfect fit to display benefits on the website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I love that this plugin is very light, and is a perfec…
5 years ago
Committed [2135886] to Plugins SVN:
Initial plugin release
5 years ago
Reopened ticket #4661 on Meta Trac:
W.org plugins directory displays wrong version in advanced view
5 years ago
Created ticket #4661 on Meta Trac:
W.org plugins directory displays wrong version in advanced view
5 years ago
Committed [2133422] to Plugins SVN:
Demo UID fixed
5 years ago
Committed [2133421] to Plugins SVN:
Demo UID fixed
5 years ago

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