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Our Team
Our team reflects some of the best and brightest talent working with WooCommerce.
Shadi Manna
Founder
Shadi founded Progressus in 2013 and still scopes every project himself, staying the client’s technical counterpart from the first call to launch. Before that he wrote software for HP Indigo presses, ran A/B testing at Vistaprint and co-founded the online print company Oasisprint as CTO.
He lives in Barcelona with his family and plays basketball, where he won’t let younger players run circles around him.
Dustin Parker
Lead Developer
Dustin leads every new project at Progressus: he works out what the client needs, shapes the scope with them and leads the build. He also helps maintain the official WooCommerce extensions we look after for Automattic, and has been building for the web since 2012.
At home in Bavaria with his family, he studies his Bible, trains with Freeletics, roasts his own coffee, plays guitar and keeps eight hens that somehow still don’t lay enough eggs.
Bartosz
Senior Full-stack Developer
Bartosz is the team’s go-to person for payments: he was the only developer on our side of the Yoco plugin rescue, and most of his time goes into WooCommerce Tax and the other official extensions we maintain for Automattic. He has been building for the web since 2007.
A husband, father and dog owner, he loves music, sings along whether anyone is listening or not and clears his head on long forest walks.
Luthfi Bintoro
WooCommerce Developer
Luthfi has been with Progressus since 2019 and works on the official WooCommerce extensions we maintain for Automattic, especially WooCommerce Tax. He’s the one to ask when WooCommerce needs to do something it was never designed for, and he’s also one half of the WordPress theme studio Interfeis.
Based in Indonesia, he’s a big anime fan (Cowboy Bebop above all), loves Metal Gear Solid and has lately taken up hiking.
Abdalsalaam Halawa
Senior WooCommerce Developer
Abdalsalaam has merged more than 300 public pull requests since joining Progressus in 2022, across the PostNL and DHL plugins, WooCommerce Tax and WooCommerce core itself. He got internet at home at 14, in a refugee camp in Gaza, and his first search was “how to build a website”.
He now lives in Bilbao, Spain, and spends his free time out in nature with friends or gaming at home.
Saleem Summour
WordPress & WooCommerce Developer
Saleem develops and maintains the DHL and PostNL plugins, including merchant support, runs HPOS and replatforming migrations for our clients, and is one of the main developers behind BlockShift, our Elementor-to-Gutenberg plugin. He has been building WordPress sites since 2012 and co-founded several startups along the way.
Outside work he plays chess, swims and cooks.
Chris McEldowney
Head of Business Development and Strategy
Chris looks after business development, partnerships and marketing at Progressus and helps steer its search and AI-search strategy. He has more than 20 years in eCommerce, from running EU dating sites in Paris to Chief Digital Officer at Mzuri Group, and co-owns the consultancy FWD Ecommerce.
Originally from Belfast, where he lives with his wife and two kids, he has worked and travelled from Japan to France and back home via Spain.
Cezary Drewniak
Project Manager & Quality Assurance
Cezary manages the DHL and PostNL projects, tests the official extensions against new WooCommerce releases and runs QA, automation and SEO at Progressus. He also wrote the original plan for BlockShift after Shadi joked it couldn’t be done.
Based in Poznań, he runs open AI models on his own hardware and is building his own game.
Thomas Shellberg
Senior Full-stack Developer
Thomas spent more than ten years at Automattic, first as a WooCommerce Happiness Engineer and then as an engineer on WooPayments, Woo AI and the WordPress.com AI site builder. At Progressus he builds checkout, fraud-prevention and analytics features for clients such as Mighty Kids.
He lives in Germany with his wife and daughters, and on the side builds Emberglow, a mobile game that rewards time away from your phone.
Anke Van Reeth
Senior Designer
Anke is a Belgian designer and developer with over 10 years of experience with WordPress.
She has worked in several agencies and with a multitude of clients within Europe. Anke has a knack for brand identity and user experience.
She’s skilled with Photoshop and Sketch, has strong Front End development skills and is always open to learn new technologies. She currently lives in Sicily with her Italian partner and two kids.