Leah Koerper
Senior Product Owner, Special Projects Team at Liquid Web
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah Koerper is a Portland-based product owner with 13 years of experience shaping software in the WordPress ecosystem. She currently leads product strategy and delivery for The Events Calendar, driving cross-functional collaboration between design, development, and QA. As a full-stack contributor to the Events Calendar plugin, she has hands-on work across UI, front-end/back-end logic, and core PHP classes, frequently merging branches to advance features. Her BA in Classics from Whitman College informs a structured, user-centric approach to problem solving and product planning. An active community contributor and former volunteer with the WordPress Foundation, she brings a collaborative mindset and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable plugin functionality.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Classics, BA, Classics at Whitman College
Github Skills (10)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugins10
php10
event-calendar10
back-end-development10
wordpress-plugin10
javascript9
javascripts9
css8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Oct 2012 - Jun 2020
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:266 commits, 30 PRs, 62 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Leah primarily contributed to the Events Calendar plugin, working on both the front-end and back-end aspects. The commits show modifications to template files, JavaScript, and CSS for UI enhancements, while also involving changes to core PHP classes and functions, specifically around event handling and plugin integration. These updates involved merging branches, suggesting active feature development and maintenance across various areas of the plugin.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
leahkoerper/gutenberg
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Printing since 1440. Development hub for the editor focus in core. Beta plugin is available from the official WordPress repository.
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
wordpress-repositoryprintingwordpressgutenbergin-core
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