Justin Kopepasah
Director Of Engineering at LendEDU
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Kopepasah is a Director of Engineering with 12 years of hands-on full-stack and leadership experience building scalable web products and developer workflows. He blends front-end expertise—demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the widely used WordPress Gutenberg project—with backend, DevOps, and CI/CD improvements that have sped teams’ delivery cycles (notably migrating CI to GitHub Actions at GoDaddy). At LendEDU he drives engineering strategy, mentoring, and cross-functional delivery while maintaining a practical focus on reliability and test automation. Having led enterprise WordPress and Serverless projects across agencies and startups, he brings both product-minded creativity and rigorous engineering standards to complex migrations and integrations. Colleagues rely on him to translate business goals into robust technical roadmaps and repeatable engineering practices.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Marketing at University of Central Oklahoma
Korean, English
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Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
javascript10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
front-end-development9
autosuggest6
html6
amp-html6
css6
cpanel6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Gutenberg block editor. They implemented features like click-outside behavior for the inserter menu and added versioning to scripts, improving performance. Code changes include modifying components, such as the Inserter and adding dependencies to improve the user experience.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
future-shop/wp-future-shop
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Defining the future of commerce for WordPress.
Contributions:3 reviews, 81 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
stripeecommercecommercewordpresswordpress-plugin
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