Alexander Botteram
Software Engineer at LinkuNijmegen
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Botteram is a software engineer based in Nijmegen, Netherlands, with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering both front-end and back-end web solutions. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as WordPress Gutenberg—adding React/JS UI features like a slug selector—and Yoast SEO, where he implemented PHP presenters for canonical and rel next/prev handling. Comfortable across JavaScript/React and PHP, he bridges editor UX improvements with SEO-focused server logic. At Linku he continues to ship practical features that improve content editing and indexability. Colleagues would describe him as a detail-oriented developer who enjoys improving developer-facing APIs and editor workflows behind widely used platforms.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
seo10
gutenberg10
react10
phpunit10
web-development8
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/wordpress-seo
Jul 2017 - Nov 2021
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 35 reviews, 1659 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander implemented canonical and rel next/prev presenters, and presentation, contributing to the SEO optimization of the WordPress Yoast SEO plugin. This involved significant code changes in PHP, specifically in the presentations and helpers directories. The user also modified files for testing, focusing on the presentation and handling of indexable post types.
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
WordPress/gutenberg
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 26 PRs, 88 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Gutenberg block editor, adding functionality and making UI improvements. They implemented a slug selector feature, which involved modifications to selectors, store, and index files within the editor's store. Further contributions involved exposing and utilizing the `getEditedPostAttribute` selector, along with modifications to related components, enhancing the editor's capabilities and user interface. The user's work primarily involved JavaScript and React, with direct impacts on the WordPress block editor's functionality.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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