Profiles

Bio

I’m a software engineer from the Netherlands, bringing over a decade of expertise to the table. Specialising in PHP, DevOps, and WordPress development, I have spearheaded numerous successful projects for global clients through my own agency. My dedication to the WordPress community dates back to 2009, where I have since then contributed to 23 versions and served as the lead developer of GlotPress from 2013 to 2015. My contributions have been instrumental in expanding WordPress’s reach across multiple languages, making GlotPress a cornerstone of its translation efforts.

Interests

WordPress, Kubernetes, DevOps, Beta versions

WordPress Origin Story

I have been using WordPress since 2006 and started contributing back to it in 2009 with my first code contribution in early 2010. In that period custom post type begin to see it’s daylight and I was more than eager to start using it. While the work just started, it also meant it wasn’t fully integrated and buggy at the time. That for me was a great place to start testing and creating patches to improve WordPress. While still being a noob around version control, with the help of the core team, I was able to start contributing back to WordPress in great ways, from core, Polyglots, localisation, Meta, community and GlotPress. In 2012 I even had commit access to the unit test repository so I could improve the test suite of WordPress directly as well.

Badges

CODE
3 badges
Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
1 badge
Documentation Contributor '17
COMMUNITY
3 badges
B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '16 WordCamp Speaker '14
PRACTICE
1 badge
Test Contributor '24
POLYGLOTS
2 badges
Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '21

Current Job

Senior Software engineer
Present
Jamf / CodeKitchen B.V.

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
0contributions
high0
medium0
score0
Last 90 days
2contributions
high2
medium0
score6
Last 12 months
7contributions
high7
medium0
score21

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 23 releases
  • 6.5
  • 6.3
  • 6.1
  • 5.8
  • 5.6
  • 5.5
  • 5.3
  • 4.9
  • 4.8
  • 4.7
  • 4.5
  • 4.4
  • 4.3
  • 4.2
  • 4.1
  • 4.0
  • 3.9
  • 3.8
  • 3.7
  • 3.6
  • 3.5
  • 3.4
  • 3.3

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 11 Thu · 11:34
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
May 2026
May 13 Wed · 06:57
Polyglots high
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
March 2026
Mar 04 Wed · 13:59
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
January 2026
Jan 12 Mon · 15:14
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
December 2025
Dec 30 Tue · 15:05
Polyglots high
Translated 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
August 2025
Aug 18 Mon · 09:58
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
Aug 11 Mon · 10:16
Polyglots high
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
April 2025
Apr 17 Thu · 07:07
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
March 2025
Mar 03 Mon · 22:35
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
February 2025
Feb 20 Thu · 03:20
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

Developer

9 plugins

Contributor

1 plugin

Translations

12 locales
nl_NL Nederlands (Dutch) Plugins Translation Editor Translation Contributor

Translation editor for 1 project.

Contributed translations to 3 projects.

View all on translate.wordpress.org

azb گؤنئی آذربایجان (South Azerbaijani) Translation Contributor
bn_BD বাংলা (Bengali) Translation Contributor
cy Cymraeg (Welsh) Translation Contributor
gu ગુજરાતી (Gujarati) Translation Contributor
hi_IN हिन्दी (Hindi) Translation Contributor
kn ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) Translation Contributor
ml_IN മലയാളം (Malayalam) Translation Contributor
mr मराठी (Marathi) Translation Contributor
skr سرائیکی (Saraiki) Translation Contributor
snd سنڌي (Sindhi) Translation Contributor
sw Kiswahili (Swahili) Translation Contributor