Aubrey Portwood
Senior Developer at Awesome Motive, Inc.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolAubrey Portwood is a Senior Developer based in Albuquerque with 12 years of hands-on experience building and rescuing complex WordPress sites for enterprise clients and agencies. Currently contributing to Awesome Motive's AffiliateWP team, Aubrey blends frontend craftsmanship (SASS, JS, Next.js) with deep backend and DevOps experience, having helped early-adopt Gutenberg and led improvements on starter themes like WebDevStudios’ wd_s. Known for mentoring teams and stepping into the toughest projects, they’ve shipped work for clients such as Microsoft, Monster.com, and NewsCorp while keeping a practical focus on coding standards and maintainability. A longtime freelancer and open-source contributor, Aubrey’s strength is bridging visual design sensibilities with scalable engineering—an uncommon mix rooted in a background across graphic design, journalism, and computer science.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Applied Studies Graphic Design Journalism & Mass Media Computer Science Business Engineering Technology, Bachelors of Applied Studies Graphic Design Journalism & Mass Media Computer Science Business Engineering Technology at New Mexico State UniversityDigital Graphics Technology Graphic Design, Digital Graphics Technology Graphic Design at Dona Ana Community College
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Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/wd_s
Apr 2015 - Oct 2020
A starter theme from WebDevStudios.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 22 commits, 12 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Aubrey primarily contributed to the WordPress starter theme, making changes to both the frontend and backend code. They removed static social icons and updated template tags, demonstrating frontend involvement. Backend changes included removing commented-out code, improving the admin bar functionality, and incorporating code for setting the logged-in user. Furthermore, they added a z-index mixin and integrated coding standards tools.
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aubreypwd/wp-noteup
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
WP NoteUp lets you take separate notes in WordPress
Contributions:3 releases, 221 commits, 60 PRs in 4 years 4 months
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