Gary Kealy
Head Of Technical Standards at SOZO | B Corp Certified
Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolGary Kealy is a Head of Technical Standards and seasoned web developer with eight years of professional experience, currently based in the Community of Madrid. He specializes in WordPress development and has a track record of improving and hardening open-source projects like the popular Understrap starter theme through refactoring, accessibility fixes, and PHP cleanups. At SOZO he progressed from Web Developer to Senior Developer and now leads technical standards, blending hands-on coding with governance and best-practice enforcement. His background spans freelance agency work, product-focused roles, and co-founding a web studio, giving him strong client communication and project-management chops alongside technical depth. Trained in computing and media production, he brings a pragmatic mix of design sensibility and engineering discipline to web platforms.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Junior/Leaving Certificate, Junior/Leaving Certificate at St Mac Dara's Community CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, Media Production Management, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Media Production Management at Dublin City UniversityGraduate Diploma, Computing, Graduate Diploma, Computing at Ulster UniversityBTEC Higher National Diploma, Media (Journalism), BTEC Higher National Diploma, Media (Journalism) at Rathmines College
Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
php10
bootstra10
bootstrap10
wordpress-themes9
starter-kit9
html9
css9
front-end-development8
woocommerce7
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
understrap/understrap
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Underscores + Bootstrap = Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 5 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily focused on maintaining and refactoring the WordPress theme, Understrap. Their contributions included updating the theme's functions.php file, making the code more efficient, and fixing minor PHP code style issues. Additionally, the user addressed accessibility by ensuring that `ABSPATH` is correctly checked. The user also refactored and updated files within the theme like the `inc/customizer.php`, `woocommerce/cart/mini-cart.php` and more.
bootstrap-wordpresswordpress-starterwordpress-frameworkunderstrapwordpress-theme
ylkyrg/ylkyrg.github.io
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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