Kaspars Dambis
WordPress Developer
Latvia
Summary
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SeniorKaspars Dambis is a seasoned WordPress-focused full-stack web engineer with 14 years of experience helping publishers grow audiences, streamline editorial workflows, and monetize content using WordPress, React, Node, and other open-source tools. He progressed through engineering and leadership roles at XWP—culminating as Director of Engineering, Systems—delivering projects through iterative design, rapid prototyping, and workflow automation. Kaspars contributes to core WordPress security tooling, notably improving back-end logic and tests for the widely used Two-Factor Authentication plugin. He also creates courses at WPElevator and brings practical experience building intranets and sites for major Norwegian brands. Based in Latvia, he blends hands-on coding with systems-level thinking and a personal interest in electronics and sustainable living that informs pragmatic, efficient solutions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
wordpress10
user-authentication10
authentication10
two-factor-authentication10
php10
encoding10
base3210
ipad9
javascript9
unit-testing9
svg9
html9
nginx6
video-streaming6
http6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/two-factor
Nov 2015 - Nov 2022
Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 117 reviews, 288 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kaspars contributed significantly to the back-end of the WordPress two-factor authentication plugin. They focused on improving the security of the plugin by addressing base32 encoding, key generation, and authentication code validation. The user also refactored existing code, improving the quality and maintainability of several core features. Additionally, they implemented unit tests to ensure the reliability of the code.
wordpressphpauthenticationfactortwo-factor
kasparsd/code-prettify-lib
Nov 2015 - Dec 2018
Fork of the Code Prettify upstream to enable local usage
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
codemodupstreamcode-prettifyjavasciptprettify
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