Hanna Worku
Developer Researcher at Yoast.com
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
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Top SchoolHanna Worku is a developer-researcher with six years’ experience applying linguistics to real-world software, currently advancing language-aware SEO features at Yoast from the Arnhem-Nijmegen region. With a strong academic foundation from MSU and a master’s in Linguistics from Radboud, she bridges computational morphology and product engineering—improving Dutch participle detection and adding Polish stemming in the widely used Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. Her background as a language teacher and translator informs a pragmatic user-centered approach to language tooling and localization. She blends careful research with hands-on backend development, focusing on edge cases and multilingual robustness that often go unnoticed but meaningfully improve analysis quality.
6 years of coding experience
Proffesional Development Course, Playwriting and Screenwriting, Proffesional Development Course, Playwriting and Screenwriting at The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)Proffesional development course, Methods of Teaching Russian as a Second Language, Proffesional development course, Methods of Teaching Russian as a Second Language at Peoples’ Friendship University of RussiaMaster's degree, Linguistics, Master's degree, Linguistics at Radboud University NijmegenLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, Spanish, French, Kazakh
Github Skills (5)
polka10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
seo9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/wordpress-seo
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 430 commits, 118 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hanna's commits focus on enhancing Dutch morphology rules within the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. The changes involve refining the detection and stemming of regular participles, particularly addressing edge cases with specific prefixes and special characters. Additionally, the user merged updates and added a Polish stemmer, signifying an effort to expand language support for the plugin's linguistic analysis capabilities. These changes suggest a focus on improving the core functionality of SEO analysis through more sophisticated linguistic processing.
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
Yoast/javascript
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Monorepo for all the JavaScript within Yoast
Contributions:9 reviews, 2 commits, 54 PRs in 1 day
yoastjavascripttypescriptmonorepo
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