Nick Cernis
Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolNick Cernis is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Innsbruck with 14 years of experience building developer-facing tools and shipping production-ready systems at scale, primarily at WP Engine. He blends full-stack expertise—having contributed to headless WordPress frameworks like Faust.js—and a strong backend focus demonstrated by refactoring and hardening libraries such as thephpleague/html-to-markdown. Nick’s career progression from web developer and technical support into senior engineering leadership reflects hands-on ownership of developer UX, plugin/admin tooling, and performance-sensitive features. He pairs a designer’s eye from an earlier graphic design and frontend background with rigorous test-driven improvements, which often translate into cleaner APIs and more robust integrations.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Animation and Special Effects, BSc (Hons), Computer Animation and Special Effects at University of Bradford
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Github Skills (36)
markdown10
javascript10
ios10
css10
wordpress10
responsive-design10
typescript10
nextjs10
xcode10
php10
markdown-it10
headless-cms10
gutenberg10
typescript-types10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
studiopress/genesis-sample
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
This is the sample theme created for the Genesis Framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 288 commits, 123 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the styling and design of the Genesis Sample theme, focusing on enhancements to the user interface and user experience. They made several changes to the CSS files, including adjusting spacing, correcting the visual presentation of blockquotes, and implementing styling for Gutenberg button variations, and other Gutenberg blocks. Their work included updates to the responsive design, with media queries to improve the layout across various screen sizes.
theme-samplepjaxsagegenesisgenesis-framework
thephpleague/html-to-markdown
Oct 2011 - Mar 2015
Convert HTML to Markdown with PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on refactoring and improving the code quality of the HTML-to-Markdown conversion library. Their contributions include cleaning up blockquote conversion logic, removing global functions and constants, adding detailed documentation, renaming the class, and incorporating unit tests. They also addressed issues related to line breaks, anchor tags, and code blocks, demonstrating a focus on refining the accuracy and robustness of the conversion process.
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