Margarita Cabrera
Senior Javascript Engineer at Automattic
Greater Sevilla Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMargarita Cabrera is a Senior JavaScript Engineer with over 11 years building web and mobile applications, currently contributing to Automattic’s front-end work on WordPress projects. She combines deep expertise in modern HTML5/CSS3 (including Grid and Flexbox), Sass, PHP and JS frameworks like Vue and Angular with practical experience across themes, plugins and responsive design. At Automattic she’s contributed UI and accessibility-focused fixes to high-profile projects such as Gutenberg and Automattic themes, including search/comment block work and typography/RTL improvements. Her background includes full-stack theme generators and tooling that automate theme creation, reflecting a knack for bridging design and engineering. Comfortable in remote, international teams, she brings a pragmatic, usability-first approach informed by hands-on SEO and CMS experience.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Management Software Developer, Management Software Developer at I.E.S. Velázquez
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
css10
theme-development10
html10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
css-variables10
site-design9
typography9
website-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/themes
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:545 reviews, 556 commits, 350 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Margarita's commits primarily focused on modifying CSS files, including `style-editor.css`, `style-rtl.css`, and `style.css`, within the `automattic/themes` repository. Their contributions involved adding and modifying font weights, as well as adjusting CSS variables related to the visual styling of the theme elements. In addition, they fixed a bug in the mobile menu by swapping the z-index of the menu buttons. These changes indicate a focus on the UI/UX elements of the theme, particularly in the area of typography.
wordpress-themeswordpressthemes
WordPress/theme-experiments
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Experimenting with themes made out of blocks.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 35 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Margarita primarily contributed to building a theme generator tool and making adjustments to the theme's CSS and HTML. They developed a PHP script to generate a theme based on an empty theme structure, allowing for customization of theme details. Additionally, the user refactored and updated the CSS and HTML, particularly the comments section and alignment settings for better functionality.
themesexperimenting
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