Benjamin Turner
Software Engineer - SE2 at WP Engine
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Turner is a Full-Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on developer tooling and WordPress ecosystems, currently improving WP Engine’s Local app and its cross-platform CI/CD for PHP, nginx/Apache, and MySQL. He blends hands-on maintenance of an older Electron codebase with pragmatic tech-debt reduction and automation across Windows, macOS, and Linux. A longtime WordPress specialist and solo founder of Passions Play, he pairs deep server and infrastructure know-how with practical product support and community advocacy. Benjamin’s background in ceramics and arts-led entrepreneurship gives him a creative, user-centered approach to engineering and documentation that surfaces in his work supporting and growing developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.F.A., Ceramics, B.F.A., Ceramics at University of OregonFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampPortland Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
wordpress10
wp-cli10
advanced-custom-fields10
plugin10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
lms9
pdo9
cli9
csv9
flywheel9
gutenberg9
bottleneck9
elearning9
cli-framework9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
passionsplay/wp-asciinema
Jul 2017 - Dec 2021
A WordPress plugin to allow for self-hosted Asciicasts created with Asciinema.
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 5 months
wordpresshostedasciinemawordpress-adminadvanced-custom-fields
getflywheel/local-addon-notes
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 10 commits in 7 months
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