Omar Reiss
Trainer Ik En De Anderen at de Baak
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolOmar Reiss is a versatile technology leader and trainer with 11 years of engineering and management experience, currently coaching personal development at de Baak while based in Gelderland, Netherlands. Former CTO and Development Manager at Yoast, he led adoption of Scrum/Kanban, DevOps practices, and scalable architecture decisions that helped professionalize a fast-growing product team. He pairs hands-on engineering—contributions to major open-source projects like WordPress Gutenberg (accessibility-focused a11y-speak refactors and tests) and Yoast SEO backend improvements—with strategic product and platform thinking. As a co-founder of a BOSH-focused SaaS and an early DevOps engineer building BOSH infrastructure, he has deep operational experience in cloud-native tooling and CI/DTAP pipelines. His academic background in philosophy and studies in end-of-life care give him a rare combination of technical rigor and human-centered facilitation skills. That blend of people-first coaching and engineering depth makes him effective at improving team flow, accessibility, and long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Intensive ‘Omgaan met sterven’, Intensive ‘Omgaan met sterven’ at Landelijk Expertisecentrum StervenMA, Philosophy, MA, Philosophy at Universiteit van Amsterdam / University of AmsterdamBA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at Radboud University NijmegenVWO Diploma, Profiel: Natuur & Techniek, VWO Diploma, Profiel: Natuur & Techniek at Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen
Dutch, English, Hebrew, German
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Github Skills (11)
accessibility10
unit-testing10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
react9
seo9
sql7
embed6
youtube6
html5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yoast/wordpress-seo
Sep 2014 - Oct 2021
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 36 reviews, 1811 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on enhancing the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin's backend functionalities. Contributions included modifying existing code to show decoded URLs in the metadata and forms, and updating the code to ensure the canonical URLs were human-readable across different areas of the plugin. They also made code adjustments, indicating an understanding of the plugin's internal workings and how it handles URL data.
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
WordPress/gutenberg
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
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:55 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
Contributions summary:Omar primarily worked on the `a11y-speak` package within the Gutenberg repository, focused on enhancing accessibility features. Their contributions involved refactoring and modularizing the a11y-speak functionality, extracting functions into separate modules for improved code organization. They also introduced unit tests for comprehensive module coverage and fixed code styling inconsistencies. These changes aimed at improving the accessibility of the WordPress block editor.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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