Barry Kooij
Co-Founder at Never5
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBarry Kooij is a seasoned web and WordPress-focused developer and entrepreneur with 13 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on development passion. As co-founder of Scanfully and founder of Never5 and LUVI GAMES, he builds product-first tooling—from a dashboard for WordPress performance to commercial plugins and indie games—while still contributing core improvements to popular open-source projects like Easy Digital Downloads. His background spans architecture, WooCommerce and plugin development, community leadership as a WordCamp co-organizer and meetup organizer, and long-term moderation of the Dutch WordPress forum. Based in North Brabant, he blends pragmatic backend engineering, e-commerce and migration expertise with a knack for clean PHP refactors and user-facing email/template enhancements that show attention to real customer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Informatica Deeltijd, Software Engineer, Informatica Deeltijd, Software Engineer at Avans Hogeschool BredaMediavormgeving, Mediatechnologie (Webmaster), Mediavormgeving, Mediatechnologie (Webmaster) at Radius College
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
410reputation
57kreached
17answers
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Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
e-mail10
php10
email-templates10
ecommerce10
emailjs10
ed2551910
javascript8
css8
logic6
objective-c6
post6
command-line6
minify6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Jul 2013 - Feb 2014
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 7 months
Contributions summary:Barry primarily focused on enhancing the Easy Digital Downloads plugin's functionality by modifying email template tags and core plugin files. They added new email template tags, including download lists, file URLs, and user details. Moreover, the user made changes to the plugin's code base, which included adding PHP documentation, and refactoring code. They also addressed styling of the plugin, updating the CSS for removing discounts.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
barrykooij/download-monitor-edd-compatibility
Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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