Paul De Wouters D'oplinter
Principal Engineer at BBC Studios
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul De Wouters D'oplinter is a Principal Engineer based in the UK with 12 years of software engineering experience and a deep background in WordPress and React-driven web platforms. He progressed from founding small WordPress services to senior and principal roles at BBC Studios, bringing expertise in custom Gutenberg blocks, block themes, third-party API integrations and complex content migrations. His career includes substantial agency and product work at Human Made and Dekode, where he balanced legacy code maintenance with shipping modern React front-ends and onboarding new developers. Comfortable across the full web stack, he combines hands-on implementation with architectural thinking to deliver maintainable, production-ready systems. Outside engineering he volunteers as a driver for Guide Dogs for the Blind, hinting at a practical, community-minded approach to problem solving. Educated in computer science, he’s known for turning messy migrations into robust, developer-friendly platforms.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
computer science, computer science at Institut de Promotion Sociale Evere
English, French, Portuguese, Dutch
Stackoverflow
572reputation
35kreached
8answers
30questions
Github Skills (200)
metadata10
http-client10
browser10
custom-fields10
nodejs10
css10
schema-org10
virtualbox10
wordpress-plugin10
xmlhttprequest10
seo10
ajax10
yoast10
phpstorm10
vote10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
humanmade/backupwordpress-pro-gdrive
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 28 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
pdewouters/fcc-stockmarket
Oct 2016 - Apr 2019
React app that displays stock values
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
reactdisplaysjavascriptstockreactjs
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