WP Engine

* Genesis Custom Blocks, 2020-present, main developer, React and PHP
https://github.com/studiopress/genesis-custom-blocks
Joined WP Engine in order to create this plugin, based on the Block Lab plugin I worked on with Luke Carbis and Rob Stinson.

* Pattern Manager, 2023, React and PHP
https://github.com/studiopress/pattern-manager

* Open Source Contributions, 2022-2023: Refactoring React components to TypeScript
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+author%3Akienstra+

* WP SVN CircleCI® Orb, 2022, main developer
Deploys WordPress plugins to WordPress.org SVN, and bumps the 'Tested up to' version without doing a full deployment.
Enabled us to deploy 11 version bumps in an hour, where it was impossible before.

Senior Software Engineer

* AMP Plugin for WordPress, 2018-2020, WordPress Engineer, PHP and React
Awarded the Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award for working on this.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6608689586552037376/
https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp

* News Corp Australia, 2015-2016, started in QA and became a Front-end engineer in Twig and Sass
An enterprise WordPress network, with 600 million page views a month.
https://xwp.co/work/news-corp-australia-spp/

Senior WordPress Engineer

Senior Software Engineer | JavaScript and Clojure

JavaScript and Clojure engineer with 8 years experience in software.
* Joined WP Engine to create a fork of a project that my friends and I worked on before, Block Lab
* Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award for working with Google on the AMP Plugin for WordPress
* Created Local CI, a VS Code extension in TypeScript with 12,000 installs that debugs CI/CD locally

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