Anton Timmermans
Founder at 24letters
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
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Top SchoolAnton Timmermans is a pragmatic founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building pragmatic web solutions and leading teams from prototype to production. He blends hands-on full‑stack expertise—contributing to high‑profile open-source projects like WordPress Gutenberg and Yoast SEO—with a product-first mindset that favors the right tool for the job, whether React or WordPress. As a serial founder and freelance tech lead, he focuses on solving the actual problem rather than shipping the shiniest architecture, guiding teams through pragmatic trade-offs and scalable implementations. His background in both UI improvements and backend database optimizations shows a rare comfort across the stack, and his work on Gutenberg's editor and Yoast's Indexable_Repository highlights impact on widely used content platforms. Based in the Arnhem‑Nijmegen region, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a steady engineering hand to turn real user needs into lasting software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeutics, Computer Science, Propedeutics, Computer Science at University of TwenteVWO, Nature and Technology, VWO, Nature and Technology at Zuyderzee College
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
database-api10
seo10
wordpress10
databases10
php10
gutenberg10
react10
database10
rails-i18n9
sql9
ember-i18n9
i18n-js9
build-automation8
webpacker8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/wordpress-seo
Feb 2015 - Dec 2019
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 releases, 2457 commits, 548 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on enhancing the `Indexable_Repository` class, a core component of the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. Their contributions involved merging feature branches, adding database interaction capabilities using `wpdb` for performance optimization, and implementing methods to count and find posts with outdated prominent words, indicating a focus on internal linking and content analysis features. This included the addition of database queries for finding specific posts based on specific criteria.
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
WordPress/gutenberg
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 41 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on enhancing the Gutenberg block editor within the WordPress ecosystem. Their contributions involved adding documentation to the Editable element, developing a script to convert POT files to PHP for translations, and integrating the generated PHP file into the build process for the plugin ZIP. Further improvements were made by refining the user interface with a focus on annotations and improving the build process.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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