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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
2 badges
bbPress Contributor '26 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
258contributions
high131
medium127
score520
Last 90 days
721contributions
high315
medium406
score1351
Last 12 months
810contributions
high350
medium460
score1510

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
October 2026
Oct 22 Thu · 19:12
Meta high
Committed [15412] to Meta SVN:
Support Forums: Audit Log: Avoid a PHP warning when a forum role is set to the user's current role
Oct 22 Thu · 19:08
Meta high
Committed [15411] to Meta SVN:
Support Forums: Fix the review edit lock test under PHPUnit 11
Oct 22 Thu · 19:05
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #1093 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Support Forums: Fix the review edit lock test under PHPUnit 11
Oct 22 Thu · 18:52
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #1092 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Support Forums: Audit Log: Avoid a PHP warning when a forum role…
Oct 22 Thu · 18:11
Meta high
Wrote a new post, Hi folks!, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Can I please get access to https://dotorg.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress/api? There are many spammy PHP warnings (about 10…
Oct 22 Thu · 12:05
Community high
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Skills: compact the three repo skills
Oct 22 Thu · 12:04
Community high
Merged pull request #2229 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: extend GatherPress test coverage for 0.36.0
Oct 22 Thu · 11:52
Community high
Merged pull request #2226 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Groups: bring the compat-test skill's REST checks up to date
Oct 22 Thu · 11:47
Community high
Merged pull request #2236 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Reports: Avoid deprecation notice when `fields` is not an array
Oct 22 Thu · 11:47
Community high
Merged pull request #2235 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
WP-CLI: remove the one-off Groups check-in migration

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8 plugins

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Translations

1 locale
mk_MK Македонски јазик (Macedonian) Translation Contributor