Gary Kovar
Principal Software Engineer at Lone Rock Point
Concord, North Carolina, United States
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SeniorGary Kovar is a Principal Software Engineer and developer coach with 15+ years of experience building resilient, scalable web systems and guiding teams through complex migrations and integrations. He blends deep expertise in WordPress enterprise architecture and Laravel backend development—delivering multi-tenant e-commerce platforms, REST APIs, Livewire apps, and serverless functions with an emphasis on maintainability and CI/CD. As a LinkedIn Learning instructor and one-on-one coach, he makes advanced topics approachable through live coding and real-world demos, and he’s helped thousands of developers level up in PHP, Laravel, and AI-assisted workflows. Gary uniquely focuses on practical, production-ready use of AI tools—teaching teams how to integrate them reliably and cost-effectively into developer workflows rather than treating them as novelty. Based in Concord, NC, he pairs technical leadership with people-first mentorship, and outside of work he keeps bees, volunteers, and raises a family.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (78)
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wordpress10
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yeoman10
wordpress-plugin10
launchpad9
populate9
youtube9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/plugin-admin-notes
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 16 PRs, 42 pushes in 20 days
binarygary/db-checkpoint
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Adds a new command to WP-CLI so you can treat your DB like a save point in a video game.
Contributions:5 releases, 79 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
wp-cliwordpressvideo-gamepointvideo
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