Leah Koerper
Senior Product Owner, Special Projects Team at Liquid Web
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah Koerper is a senior product leader with 13 years of experience turning complex product challenges into measurable growth, having scaled portfolios from $1M to $11M ARR and active users from 200K to 700K+. She blends hands-on full-stack development experience—contributing to the widely used The Events Calendar WordPress plugin—with strategic product ownership, shipping hundreds of releases and creating new revenue streams like Series Passes and a hybrid SaaS-WordPress seating solution. Leah excels at resolving long-standing technical debt (e.g., modernizing recurring events to iCal standards) while instituting UX-driven processes that cut design iterations by 40% and accelerate time-to-market. Comfortable leading cross-functional, async teams, she translates customer insight and data from millions of sites into pragmatic roadmaps that lift conversion and retention. Based in Portland, she pairs a classics BA with a practical bias toward iterative delivery and empathetic stakeholder alignment, often surfacing elegant product fixes from deep technical familiarity.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Classics, BA Classics at Whitman College
Github Skills (8)
wordpress10
php10
event-calendar10
back-end-development10
wordpress-plugin10
javascript9
css8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Oct 2012 - Jun 2020
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:266 commits, 30 PRs, 62 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Leah primarily contributed to the Events Calendar plugin, working on both the front-end and back-end aspects. The commits show modifications to template files, JavaScript, and CSS for UI enhancements, while also involving changes to core PHP classes and functions, specifically around event handling and plugin integration. These updates involved merging branches, suggesting active feature development and maintenance across various areas of the plugin.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
leahkoerper/gutenberg
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Printing since 1440. Development hub for the editor focus in core. Beta plugin is available from the official WordPress repository.
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
wordpress-repositoryprintingwordpressgutenbergin-core
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