Evan Herman
WordPress Plugin Reviewer at EH Dev Shop
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Herman is a senior software engineer and WordPress specialist with over a decade of experience building and scaling managed WordPress hosting and e-commerce platforms that serve millions of users. At GoDaddy he led AI-driven automation and orchestration efforts, architecting reusable platform abstractions and a BFF service that cut feature delivery from months to days while hardening security and operational controls. An early member of GoDaddy’s WordPress Experience team, he helped design automated site provisioning and WooCommerce integrations that empowered SMBs to launch online storefronts. Evan is an active open-source contributor and WordPress core and plugin reviewer/author, with practical contributions to Gutenberg block UX in notable repos like CoBlocks. He runs a freelance dev shop, teaches and speaks at WordCamps, and brings a blend of product-minded systems design and hands-on implementation to cross-functional teams. Based in Pennsylvania, he prefers remote senior or staff engineering roles that sit at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and user experience.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Bachelor of Science, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at Drexel UniversityTenafly High School
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Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
javascript10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
react10
css9
html8
ajax6
xampp6
jquery6
loops6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
godaddy-wordpress/coblocks
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
A suite of professional page building content blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:846 releases, 123 reviews, 205 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the development of the WordPress Gutenberg block editor interface for the CoBlocks plugin. They fixed bugs, such as those related to color pickers and image resizing and focused on improving existing components such as the accordion, share and icon blocks. Furthermore, the user implemented a new feature by adding image filter control to the core image block and worked on updating various styles, and user interfaces to align the blocks with the latest WordPress versions.
block-editorprofessionalgutenberg-blockwordpresswordpress-gutenberg
godaddy-wordpress/primer-child-lyrical
Sep 2016 - Mar 2022
Lyrical is a Primer child theme with a focus on photography and beautiful fonts.
Contributions:2 releases, 70 commits, 61 PRs in 5 years 6 months
primerprimer-child-themeswordpresswordpress-child-themewordpress-theme
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