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Leo Muniz

Senior WordPress Engineer

@munizleo Rio de Janeiro, Brazil joined Sep 2023

leomuniz.dev github.com/leomuniz Slack: @Leo Muniz

    Bio

    Senior full-stack engineer with 20+ years of experience in crafting scalable software solutions that perfectly fit customers’ needs.

    WordPress Origin Story

    My first WP experience was in 2011 to redesign the site of a wedding photographer. I had a good XP with PHP at that time, having worked for big companies in Brazil, and learning WordPress was just a natural step.

    But the thing got serious when I was hired by Rainmaker Digital, in February 2018. Their platform, Rainmaker Platform, is on top of WordPress and I was in charge of maintaining and improving all plugins that power the platform.

    In November 2020, I moved to Awesome Motive, one of the most relevant WP companies in the world, being responsible for top-notch plugins like WPForms, WP Mail SMTP, AIOSEO, Monster Insights, and many others. I worked as a WP developer for the WPForms and WP Mail SMTP marketing sites and APIs that handled +200K customers and +5M plugin active installs. In April 2022, I was promoted to Team Lead, leading a team of 3 WP developers.

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    Translation Contributor '23

    Current Job

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 6.5

    Contributions

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    January 2026
    Jan 17 Sat · 03:37
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Bug Report: Recurring Events Not Copying Taxonomies with Hyphens in Names, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Events Manager team, I've found a bug in how rec…
    February 2025
    Feb 14 Fri · 23:56
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Indexing error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey Saumya, I had the same problem earlier today and it was actually a PHP…
    December 2024
    Dec 22 Sun · 04:34
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    September 2024
    Sep 18 Wed · 13:41
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to elementor search template posts widget and Algolia, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @tw2113 It was for the original message. Many different plugins mess up with the main…
    Sep 17 Tue · 22:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to elementor search template posts widget and Algolia, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I had a similar issue with Beaver Builder + FacetWP. It turns out the culprit…
    May 2024
    May 16 Thu · 22:23
    Polyglots high
    Translated 14 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    January 2024
    Jan 24 Wed · 02:56
    Core high
    Pull request #57436 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    [Type] Developer Documentation - Fix removeAllNotices dispatch on the removeAllNotices doc section…
    December 2023
    Dec 28 Thu · 19:47
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #57436 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    [Type] Developer Documentation - Fix removeAllNotices dispatch on the removeAllNotices doc section…
    Dec 12 Tue · 02:23
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 78 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Dec 08 Fri · 16:15
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Great plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It just works and it has some amazing features. Very e…