Felix Arntz
Senior Software Engineer at Vercel
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Arntz is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and improving large-scale web platforms, currently at Vercel after a multi-year tenure at Google. A long-standing WordPress Core Committer, he has deep expertise in PHP back-end systems and has contributed significant fixes and features to high-profile projects like Gutenberg, AMP for WordPress, and Google Site Kit. He blends backend performance work (caching, image handling, theme.json parsing) with front-end improvements and developer tooling, and has a track record of shipping robust tests and maintainable refactors. Based in Austin, he pairs mission-driven engineering with eclectic interests—running, music, movies and learning Spanish—which he cites as energizers that keep his focus sharp.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Angewandte Informatik at Ruhr University Bochum
German, English, Spanish, French, Chinese
Github Skills (43)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
web-application10
google-analytics10
ecommerce10
ampl10
testing10
wordpress10
css10
gulp10
google-amp10
phpunit10
php10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/site-kit-wp
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:62 releases, 1426 reviews, 5026 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Felix's commits primarily involved refactoring and enhancing various features related to the Google Site Kit plugin for WordPress, including code changes in PHP for the Analytics module and the addition of auto ads support for AMP stories, showcasing a focus on back-end development. The commits show implementation of new functionality in JavaScript for UI components and improvements to existing ones, highlighting front-end development skills. Additionally, the user contributed to UI design and improvements to multiple existing components, including the popular pages and search console components.
everythingwordpress-apiwordpressstopoffer
wprig/wprig
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
A progressive theme development rig for WordPress.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 58 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Felix's commits focused on enhancing the WP Rig theme development rig. They primarily worked on improving theme functionality through refactoring, including replacing theme slugs and names independently. The user also implemented features for generating language and ZIP files using the theme slug and addressing coding standards violations. These contributions improved the theming workflow by adding greater automation and cleaner, more maintainable code.
rigwordpresswordpress-themeprogressiveperformance
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