Dennis Plötner
WordPress Engineer at Syde GmbH
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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SeniorDennis Plötner is a WordPress engineer with 14 years of experience building multisite, PHP-based platforms and leading teams through R&D innovation cycles. Based in Milan after a life split between Germany and Italy, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership experience as a Principal Engineer and former PHP Team Lead at MotorK. He’s shipped large-scale WordPress solutions across agencies and enterprise contexts, and now drives product-focused engineering at Syde GmbH. A seasoned backend developer comfortable with MySQL, Python and complex integrations, he also brings practical CTO experience from earlier roles coordinating hotel booking systems and research collaborations. Outside work he’s a traveler, triathlete and amateur musician—traits that inform a disciplined, creative approach to solving engineering challenges.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
German, Italian, English
Stackoverflow
157reputation
1kreached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (72)
subversion10
multilingual10
wordpress10
opcache10
switcher10
gutenberg-blocks10
reservation-system10
playwright10
trac10
plugin10
branches10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
addon10
apc9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lloc/wp-nowpayments-integration
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Cryptocurrency Payment integration using the nowpayments.io Gateway
Contributions:86 commits, 23 PRs, 94 pushes in 3 months
nowpaymentswordpressphppayment-methodspayment-gateway
lloc/Multisite-Language-Switcher
Sep 2011 - Jan 2023
WordPress Plugin: Multisite Language Switcher
Contributions:50 releases, 13 reviews, 1157 commits in 11 years 5 months
language-switchermultisite-language-switcherwordpressphpplugin
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