Nick Diego
Owner at Spellbinder.gg
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolNick Diego is a product-focused developer and founder with 12 years of experience blending front-end engineering, developer relations, and product marketing across the WordPress ecosystem. As an owner of Spellbinder.gg he applies technical and product chops to a niche gaming platform while previously shaping developer experience at Automattic and WP Engine. A committed WordPress Core contributor, Nick has shipped UI and accessibility improvements to Gutenberg and helped refine the popular Frost block theme, showing attention to both UX detail and internationalization. His background in marketing leadership and an MA in Economics gives him a rare mix of data-informed product thinking and hands-on engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate community needs into shipped features and clear technical messages. He’s equally comfortable iterating CSS and fixing accessibility bugs as he is crafting go-to-market narratives for developer products.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Economics, Minor in Mathematics, BS in Economics, Minor in Mathematics at College of CharlestonMA in Economics, Economics, MA in Economics, Economics at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (12)
theme-development10
css10
wordpress10
javascript10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
react10
accessibility8
html7
php7
jquery6
infinite-scroll6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wpengine/frost
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
The ultimate WordPress block theme for website designers and developers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 4 reviews, 94 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the development of the Frost WordPress theme, focusing on styling and layout modifications. Their work involved creating and updating block patterns, implementing CSS for various elements, and addressing alignment issues in the site editor. The commits demonstrate a focus on refining the user interface and ensuring proper display across different template parts and page types within the WordPress environment. Furthermore, the user localized the theme's strings for internationalization.
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WordPress/gutenberg
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:198 reviews, 59 commits, 264 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the user interface and feature enhancements of the Gutenberg editor. They addressed alignment issues, fixed color picker bugs, and added functionalities to the social icons block, including the ability to show/hide labels. The user also improved accessibility by removing role attributes from decorative SVGs and made various code adjustments, including updating the Reddit icon and color.
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