Igor Radovanov
Technical Lead | Full Stack Engineer | Applied AI Engineer
Areas of expertise
- Full stack web application engineering
- Technical leadership & software architecture
- WordPress & WooCommerce platform development
- Applied AI: agents, RAG, and MCP based tooling
- Performance, security & maintainability
- Open source development & community
Experience
WordPress Technical Lead · GoDaddy
Present- Lead the technical direction and architecture for WordPress products at scale.
- Build and maintain WordPress and WooCommerce features, plugins, and integrations.
- Built applied AI systems for the team, including an AI support assistant and an AI driven issue tracking and triage workflow.
- Keep code quality high through reviews, standards, and well tested, documented code.
- Track WordPress core releases and keep our products compatible and up to date.
Certified WordPress Expert · Codeable
Ongoing- Vetted senior WordPress professional delivering custom development for clients.
- Scope, build, and harden bespoke WordPress and WooCommerce solutions.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into clear, maintainable technical solutions.
- Focus on performance, security, and long term maintainability over quick fixes.
Full Stack Engineer · Web & Product Engineering
Earlier career- Built and shipped full stack web applications end to end.
- Owned front end interfaces, back end services, data layers, and deployments.
- Collaborated across design, product, and engineering to deliver features.
- Grew from individual contributor into architecture and technical leadership.
Selected achievements
- WordPress Core Contributor across multiple releases, including 7.0, 6.9, 5.7, 5.6, and 5.5.
- Authored and maintain an open source WooCommerce plugin published on the WordPress.org directory.
- Led architecture and technical direction for web products operating at significant scale.
- Designed and shipped applied AI systems, from retrieval pipelines to agentic workflows, taking them from prototype to production.
- Established code review and engineering practices that raised quality and consistency across teams.
- Earned a vetted senior certification through a rigorous expert network assessment.
- Contributed to the WordPress open source ecosystem through plugins and ongoing participation.
Skills
Languages
TypeScript JavaScript PHP Python SQL Bash
Frontend
React Astro Tailwind CSS HTML CSS Accessibility
Backend & Platform
Node.js WordPress WooCommerce REST APIs GraphQL
Applied AI
LLMs RAG AI Agents MCP Vector search Prompt engineering
Data & Infrastructure
MySQL Redis Docker CI/CD Cloudflare Git
Testing & Quality
PHPUnit Vitest PHPStan Code review Static analysis
Practices
Technical leadership Architecture Mentoring Agile
Certifications
- Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification · DeepLearning.AI Jun 2026
- Python for AI · DeepLearning.AI May 2026
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Amazon Web Services August, 2025
- AWS: Cloud Essentials · Amazon Web Services Jun 2024
- AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical) · Amazon Web Services Dec 2023
- Codeable Certified WordPress Expert · Codeable May 2022
Education
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Self directed study: Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Fundamentals (linear algebra, statistics, optimization) through applied AI: deep learning, LLMs, RAG, agents, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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Continuous professional development
Software architecture, system design, distributed systems, and engineering leadership through books, courses, and hands on practice.
Open source contributions
- Product Roles Manager for WooCommerce ↗
Open source WooCommerce plugin for role based catalog access.
- WordPress.org Contributions ↗
Ongoing contributions across the WordPress ecosystem.