Brian Coords
Developer Advocate, WooCommerce
Mission Viejo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Coords is a Developer Advocate at Automattic specializing in WooCommerce, bringing 11 years of experience building WordPress and JavaScript solutions for digital media, nonprofits, and education. He blends hands-on full-stack development—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Understrap—with writing and conference speaking to educate and grow the WordPress community. As Senior Manager of New Media at a medical nonprofit, he leads web and mobile initiatives that support mission-driven outcomes, pairing technical delivery with project leadership. His background as an educator and adjunct faculty shapes a clear, pedagogical approach to developer advocacy and documentation. He also runs a digital consultancy serving mission-focused organizations, demonstrating an ability to move between strategic leadership and code-level implementation. Based in Southern California, he balances professional depth with prolific community contributions and practical theme/build tooling expertise that often goes unseen.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly PomonaSingle Subject Credential, Secondary Education and Teaching, Single Subject Credential, Secondary Education and Teaching at California State University-Fullerton
English
Github Skills (12)
css10
gulp10
php10
javascript10
bootstra10
bootstrap10
gutenberg9
front-end-development9
customisation9
custom-theme9
customizer9
wordpress9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
understrap/understrap
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Underscores + Bootstrap = Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 161 reviews, 273 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the Understrap WordPress theme by addressing both frontend and backend aspects. Their commits included replacing `esc_attr` with `esc_html` in PHP templates for improved security, adding a function file to declare Gutenberg support, implementing initial Bootstrap styles for block editor elements by updating the `custom-editor-style.css` file. Additionally, the user's work also involved modifying the functions.php, the CSS and various template files of the theme to integrate block editor functionality, and enhance theme styling, indicating work across multiple areas.
bootstrap-wordpresswordpress-starterwordpress-frameworkunderstrapwordpress-theme
understrap/understrap-child
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
The starter child theme for Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 62 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on porting over the latest parent theme build process and updating the underlying package and gulp configurations. This involved modifying JavaScript files, as well as the CSS files. They built basic stylesheets to create a foundation for styling the child theme, updating the version number and compiling JavaScript assets. These changes indicate the user's role in customizing and adapting the parent theme's styling and build processes for the child theme.
wordpress-starterwordpress-frameworkunderstrapwordpresswordpress-theme
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