Enrico Battocchi
Lead Developer And Plugin Release Lead at Yoast
Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolEnrico Battocchi is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of focused experience at Yoast, where he now serves as Lead Developer and Plugin Release Lead guiding the evolution of one of WordPress’s most widely used SEO plugins. He combines deep open-source stewardship—contributing back-end improvements, data migrations and code quality work to Yoast’s flagship repo—with hands-on release discipline and API governance skills. Based in Tuscany, he brings a decade-plus history of web development and sysadmin work, including creating and maintaining the popular Duplicate Post plugin. Known for clarifying complex HTML/output behaviors and removing technical debt, Enrico pairs pragmatic engineering with product-aware decision making. His background straddles both community-driven OSS practices and the operational rigor needed to ship reliable plugins at scale.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern DenmarkLiceo Classico "Niccolini-Guerrazzi" - LivornoUniversità di Pisa
Italian, English, danese, French, olandese
Github Skills (13)
wordpress10
code-optimization10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
php10
seo10
cpp-templates10
html-template10
python-templates10
html9
databases8
database8
javascript3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/wordpress-seo
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 419 reviews, 1472 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Enrico primarily worked on improving the core codebase by escaping attributes in Search Appearance classes and clarifying comments related to HTML output. They addressed code quality by removing unused code and enhancing code clarity, along with merging features related to social templates. Furthermore, the user was involved in the migration of social settings to the new format of the database, which is a key task for the overall project evolution.
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
Yoast/custom-field-finder
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 8 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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