Justin Foell
Development Manager For WPForms At Awesome Motive
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Foell is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of professional experience driving backend and WordPress-focused development, currently managing the WPForms engineering team at Awesome Motive. He progressed from hands-on roles—Senior Back End Engineer and Engineering Manager at WebDevStudios—to leading product-focused teams that ship extensible, community-facing plugins. Comfortable across PHP/WordPress ecosystems, integrations and legacy migrations, Justin brings a pragmatic engineer-manager approach informed by long experience in consulting and freelance work. Based in Minneapolis, he mixes deep technical grounding (dating back to Java and Perl integration work) with a knack for operational reliability and contributor-minded development. An early adopter and tinkerer—“breaking things since 1977”—he favors practical automation and clean integration patterns that scale with product growth.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at University of St. Thomas
English
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Github Skills (149)
woocommerce10
strava10
relevance10
look-and-feel10
javascript10
wordpress10
wordpress-api10
strava-api10
lipo10
tailwindcss10
advanced-custom-fields10
plugin10
yeoman10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jrfoell/recurring-timer-widget
Mar 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 8 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 7 months
cmanon/wp-strava
May 2017 - Jan 2023
WordPress Strava.com Plugin
Contributions:44 releases, 1 review, 400 commits in 5 years 9 months
wordpressstravapluginwordpress-pluginstrava-api
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