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Bio

Rufaro is a Zimbabwean Senior Web Engineer at Human Made, who is passionate about building performant and secure software which enables rich customer experiences. A significant amount of his career has been focused on building customer buying and content consumption experiences on multiple platforms like web, WhatsApp and USSD by leveraging various technologies like WordPress, WooCommerce, Google Cloud and third-party payment and platform APIs.

Outside of engineering, Rufaro loves pizza, a lot !! He also enjoys cooking, watching anime and playing games like The Witcher 3 and Forza Motorsport. Yes, he is quite the introvert though once he is comfortable, he will speak like there’s no tomorrow. So feel free to say Hi.

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WordCamp Speaker '26
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Test Contributor '25

Current Job

Senior Web Engineer
Sep 2021 – Present
Human Made · Full-time

Recent impact

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases
  • 6.9
  • 6.7

Contributions

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November 2026
Nov 02 Mon · 06:20
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Johannesburg 2026
June 2025
Jun 06 Fri · 08:29
Core high
Mentioned in [60288] on WordPress SVN:
Users: Prevent creating of empty usernames after sanitization.
October 2024
Oct 11 Fri · 17:18
Core high
Mentioned in [59216] on WordPress SVN:
Users: remove unnecessary writes to the database for use_ssl user meta.