Niku Hietanen
Web Developer at shipitfi
Mainland Finland
Summary
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RockstarNiku Hietanen is a web developer from Mainland Finland with nine years of hands-on experience building lightweight, maintainable WordPress sites and front-end interfaces using PHP, JavaScript and Vue.js. He focuses on pragmatic, original WordPress practices and has spent 7+ years iterating on a minimal starter theme (air-light), refactoring it into a modular, easy-to-maintain codebase under active daily development. Comfortable full-stack on small teams or solo projects, Niku pairs clean architecture with performance-minded front-end work and CSS/JS craft. Outside of code he plays guitar and drums, a creative streak that shows in thoughtful UI details and reusable design patterns.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
theme-development10
wordpress10
sass10
php10
web-development10
javascript9
lit9
css9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
digitoimistodude/air-light
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
💨 WordPress starter theme - designed to be minimal, ultra-lightweight (< 20 kB) and easy for all kinds of WordPress projects. 7+years/1000+hours of development and still updating daily! We prefer the original WordPress way of doing things so no strange templating languages or frameworks here.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 144 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Niku primarily worked on refactoring and organizing the WordPress starter theme. Their commits focused on moving theme setup, widgets, scripts, styles, template tags, branding, and navigation to separate, modular files. This restructuring improves the theme's maintainability and organization. The user also worked on the CSS and JavaScript.
templating-languagesultrapreferupdatingstarter-theme
digitoimistodude/air-reactions
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 46 commits in 3 months
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