Lukas Gächter
Web Developer at mindkomm
Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarLukas Gächter is a web developer based in Winterthur, Switzerland with 11 years of hands-on experience building WordPress-driven sites and developer tools. As a partner at Mindkomm he blends client-facing delivery with library maintenance, focusing on clean, object-oriented PHP and templating with Twig. An active contributor to the popular Timber project, he has improved test coverage, refactored core Post abstractions, and fixed Block Editor rendering issues—work that reflects a focus on maintainability and real-world editor compatibility. He favors pragmatic refactors and coding standards that reduce tech debt while keeping themes and plugins interoperable. Colleagues know him for quietly improving developer ergonomics in widely used open-source tooling as much as for shipping client projects.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
2,759reputation
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79answers
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twig
top-5%
wordpress
top-1%
Github Skills (15)
testing10
wordpress10
php10
twig9
refactoring8
refactor8
object-oriented-programming8
acf-pro6
css6
wordpress-gutenberg6
javascript6
performance-optimization6
advanced-custom-fields6
react6
timber6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
timber/timber
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 286 reviews, 1065 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily worked on removing unused tests, modifying the structure of Post and PostCollection classes by refactoring code, and applying coding standards to improve the code base of the Timber library. The user implemented a new "get_info" method in the Post class, added and deprecated old meta properties, and also worked on improving existing tests. They also incorporated and fixed a bug to address issues with the rendering of posts and excerpts using the Block Editor.
template-enginetwigwordpressphptimber
mindkomm/woocommerce-email-text-edit
Apr 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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