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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
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Core Contributor '17 Meta Contributor '26 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
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Documentation Contributor '17
COMMUNITY
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WordCamp Speaker '23
POLYGLOTS
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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
237contributions
high99
medium138
score435
Last 90 days
457contributions
high174
medium283
score805
Last 12 months
503contributions
high200
medium303
score903

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 18 Fri · 11:41
Community med
Closed issue #2062 on the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Groups: send a confirmation email when a member RSVPs
Sep 18 Fri · 11:41
Community high
Merged pull request #2093 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: confirm a member's RSVP by email
Sep 18 Fri · 11:41
Community high
Merged pull request #2092 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Login: present account creation as an action
Sep 18 Fri · 11:41
Community med
Closed issue #2030 on the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Groups: make account creation obvious on the login screen
Sep 18 Fri · 11:12
GitHub high
Merged pull request #777 into WordPress/pattern-directory:
Pattern directory: test the directive marker instead of reading the markup
Sep 18 Fri · 11:04
Community med
Submitted pull request #2093 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: confirm a member's RSVP by email
Sep 18 Fri · 10:39
Community med
Submitted pull request #2092 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Login: present account creation as an action
Sep 17 Thu · 18:07
Community high
Merged pull request #2089 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: let members see the events they attended
Sep 17 Thu · 18:07
Community med
Closed issue #2061 on the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Groups: let members see events they have previously attended
Sep 17 Thu · 18:00
Community high
Merged pull request #2090 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: filter the events archive by format

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mk_MK Македонски јазик (Macedonian) Translation Contributor