Palmes Palmes
Principal Technical Manager at MGO (Macias Gini & O'Connell LLP)
Iloilo, Philippines
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Top SchoolPalmes Palmes is a Principal Technical Manager and seasoned full-stack WordPress engineer with nine years in formal roles and over a decade of hands-on web development experience, currently leading technical delivery at WebDevStudios from Iloilo, Philippines. He progresses teams from engineering manager to principal roles, blending front-end craftsmanship—contributions to widely used projects like the Twenty Nineteen theme and WebDevStudios' starter theme—with people leadership and delivery ownership. Comfortable across PHP, WordPress theming, and site builds, he has a long freelance and contract history running projects for firms like MGO and XWP, plus founding experience in offshore IT services. An active community builder as WordPress Iloilo Community Manager, he pairs pragmatic engineering with documentation and UX improvements (notably adding scrolling navigation and cover-block features to starter themes). Outside work he’s an avid manga/anime fan and collector, a detail that underscores a meticulous eye for design and storytelling in interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electronics and Communications Engineering Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, BS Electronics and Communications Engineering Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Central Philippine University
English, Filipino, hiligaynon
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
css10
wordpress10
sc10
php10
scs10
html10
javascript9
gutenberg9
tailwind8
tailwindcss8
advanced-custom-fields6
react6
modal-dialog6
custom-post-type6
authentication6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/wd_s
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
A starter theme from WebDevStudios.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 15 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Palmes primarily contributed to the scaffolding theme by implementing new features and refactoring existing ones. Their work included adding a full-aligned image cover using the Cover Block, removing unused typography elements, and fixing markup for an accordion-like feature. They also introduced a scrolling navigation feature, improving the user experience within the scaffolding documentation.
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WordPress/twentynineteen
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Twenty Nineteen is a theme now included in all WordPress installs. To report any issues please go here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 23 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Palmes primarily focused on refining the user interface and code style within the Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme. Their commits involved cleaning up comments, removing unnecessary periods, trimming whitespace, and adding class comments. They also made changes to the header, footer, and template parts to enhance the visual presentation and overall consistency of the theme.
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