Manuel Augustin
Product Owner at Yoast BV
Netherlands
Summary
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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.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Reflections on Science, Reflections on Science at Radboud Honours AcademyJapan and East Asian Studies Program, Japan and East Asian Studies Program at Kwansei Gakuin UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Language and Communication, Master of Arts (M.A.), Language and Communication at Radboud University Nijmegen
German, English, Dutch, Japanese, French
Github Skills (33)
snippet10
sitemap10
seo10
perfect10
sitemap-xml10
wordpress10
metadata10
render10
plugin10
schema-org10
php10
yoast10
meta-tags10
wordpress-plugin10
structured-data10
Programming languages (3)
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
renderjson-ldschema-orgsnippethead
Yoast/javascript
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Monorepo for all the JavaScript within Yoast
Contributions:38 releases, 13 reviews, 18 commits in 5 months
yoastjavascripttypescriptmonorepo
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