Donovan Maidens
Lead Developer at Airfleet
Theewaterskloof Local Municipality, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDonovan Maidens is a Lead Developer and founder with 11+ years of hands-on full-stack experience building and maintaining web applications, primarily focused on WordPress and WooCommerce. He combines UX/UI sensibilities with back-end expertise—database optimization, hosting and platform architecture, caching and security—to deliver performant, production-ready systems. At Airfleet he shapes development practices and mentors peers through deep code reviews and pragmatic technology choices rather than formal people management. As founder of Anomalous and WPZA he has long supported bespoke plugin work, LAMP and cloud operations (including Oracle Cloud and Redis) for business-critical sites. Based in Theewaterskloof, South Africa, he’s moving more into cloud security while retaining a strong legacy of e-commerce and performance-focused engineering. Colleagues rely on him for practical solutions to thorny technical problems and for building foundations that enable continuous team learning.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, Matric, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, Matric at Rand Park High School
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (39)
wordpress7
purecss7
development-mode7
marketplace6
bootstrap6
wordpress-plugin5
plugin5
css5
woocommerce5
ecommerce4
vendor4
localize4
expansion4
bbpress3
shopware3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AnomalousSA/Bootpresswp
May 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 32 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 6 months
bootstrap4base-themebootstrap5cssbootstrap
djm56/wpza-maintenance-development-mode
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
WordPress Maintenanace and Development Mode Plugin
Contributions:2 releases, 18 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 10 months
development-modewordpresswordpress-pluginplugin
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