Paul Gilzow
Developer Advocate
Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Gilzow is a Developer Advocate with 11+ years of experience specializing in web application security, accessibility, and developer experience. At Platform.sh he bridges platform capabilities and developer needs, drawing on a decade of university work where he architected large-scale WordPress and Drupal fleets, automated deployments and updates, and cut site setup times from hours to minutes. An active open-source maintainer, he continues to develop the wpDirAuth LDAP plugin and a rapid-theme MVC framework, showing a strong commitment to practical tooling and community support. Known for mentoring teams and building CI/CD and local-dev automation, he combines deep operational know-how with a passion for teaching and conference speaking. Outside the usual bio, he’s equally likely to be found mountain biking, snowboarding, or dancing with his kids, bringing the same energy to developer relations as to life.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Jefferson City High SchoolUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (200)
drag10
smarty10
command-line-tool10
background-image10
api10
platformsh10
saml-authentication10
draft-js10
css10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
frontend10
grapesjs10
bug-reporting10
monkey-patching10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
platformsh-templates/ghrw-templates
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
A collection of reusable GitHub workflows that are used by the Platform.sh collection of templates
Contributions:4 reviews, 58 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 11 months
platformsh-templates/typo3-v11
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
This template builds the TYPO3 (v11.X) CMS for Platform.sh
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
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