Manuel Augustin
Product Owner at Dienst Toeslagen
Netherlands
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Top SchoolManuel Augustin is a Product Owner with nine years of experience building language-aware features for web products, currently responsible for Yoast’s flagship WordPress SEO plugins used on over 13 million websites. He progressed from developer and linguist to development lead and now product owner, combining applied linguistics research with hands-on engineering and team leadership. His background in language and communication (M.A.) and early research roles in psycholinguistics give him a rare edge in designing robust language analysis for real-world SEO tooling. Based in the Netherlands, he excels at turning linguistic research into scalable product features and guiding cross-functional teams to ship impactful releases.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Reflections on Science, Reflections on Science at Radboud Honours AcademyMaster of Arts (M.A.), Language and Communication, Master of Arts (M.A.), Language and Communication at Radboud UniversityJapan and East Asian Studies Program, Japan and East Asian Studies Program at Kwansei Gakuin University
German, English, Dutch, Japanese, French
Github Skills (17)
seo10
wordpress10
metadata10
plugin10
php10
yoast10
xml-sitemap10
opengraph10
javascript9
woocommerce9
word-frequency9
monorepo9
react-component7
react7
react-components6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/YoastSEO.js
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Analyze content on a page and give SEO feedback as well as render a snippet preview.
Contributions:19 releases, 127 commits, 198 PRs in 1 year 1 month
seo
Yoast/javascript
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Monorepo for all the JavaScript within Yoast
Contributions:38 releases, 13 reviews, 18 commits in 5 months
javascriptmonorepoyoast
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