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benitoalba/README.md
Benito Alba Molina — WordPress, open source, and software engineering

I’m a software engineer focused on WordPress, WooCommerce, and the open web. I build and improve plugins and web applications with PHP, JavaScript, and React, tracing problems across application logic, background processing, APIs, data, and user-facing behavior. I care about performance, accessibility, compatibility, maintainable abstractions, and changes that are easy to review and verify.

Engineering focus

  • Building and maintaining WordPress plugins across PHP, JavaScript, React, REST APIs, background processing, and data layers
  • Debugging complex problems across user interfaces, application logic, background jobs, integrations, and databases
  • Improving performance through careful measurement while preserving backward compatibility
  • Building accessible interfaces with semantic HTML, ARIA, WCAG-informed testing, and assistive-technology verification
  • Making focused, reviewable changes supported by PHPUnit, Jest, static analysis, coding standards, and continuous integration
  • Evaluating abstraction, data-access, and implementation trade-offs with long-term maintainability in mind
  • Using AI-assisted workflows for codebase research, debugging, test planning, and automation while independently validating the resulting code and technical decisions
  • Contributing to open-source products through clear documentation, code review, and asynchronous collaboration

Languages and tools

WordPress WooCommerce PHP MySQL Composer JavaScript TypeScript React HTML5 CSS Git GitHub Actions Docker PHPUnit Jest PHPStan PHP_CodeSniffer WCAG and ARIA accessibility

Open-source contributions

Browse all of my public pull requests →

How I work

Trace the full problem, measure what matters, make the smallest reliable change, and verify the behavior users depend on.

I value useful impact, continuous learning, open source, and clear asynchronous communication. I take initiative and prefer small, well-explained improvements that balance performance, accessibility, compatibility, and maintainability while remaining easy to review and safe to ship. I share context so others can understand, question, and build on the work.

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  4. benitoalba benitoalba Public

    Professional GitHub profile for Benito Alba Molina.

  5. node-canvas node-canvas Public

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    Node canvas is a Cairo backed Canvas implementation for NodeJS.

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  6. wordpress-playground wordpress-playground Public

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