Joshua Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at Hand Forged Web, LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Nelson is a senior software engineer and WordPress specialist with 13 years of software experience and a background in structural engineering and project management. He blends hands-on development—running his own agency, Hand Forged Web, and managing WordPress at Rover—with stakeholder-facing leadership honed over 16 years managing multi-million dollar engineering projects. A collaborator who values honest communication, he moves fluidly between engineering, design, and product roles to deliver pragmatic solutions from inception to launch. Co-founder of the Post Growth Institute and an early blogger on sustainable economics, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a systems-thinking perspective to web projects. Based in Seattle, he balances technical craft with real-world judgment—occasionally brewing award-winning mead and arguing for the Oxford comma.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Civil Engineering, B.S. Civil Engineering at University of Washington
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
wordpress10
darksky10
custom-fields10
cmb210
updater10
favicon10
metaboxes10
plugin10
wordpress-plugin10
dependency-free9
plugin-development9
archived9
php9
footer9
user-experience9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
joshuadavidnelson/scripts-to-footer
Feb 2013 - Dec 2020
Move your scripts to the footer to speed up perceived page load times and improve user experience, now with options and filters to selectively keep scripts in the header.
Contributions:10 releases, 114 commits, 14 PRs in 8 years
keepspeedheaderfilterstimes
joshuadavidnelson/wp-darksky
Jan 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 5 months
darkskywordpresshelper-classwordpress-plugin
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