Sören Wünsch
Webentwicklung at Parship Group
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSören Wünsch is a web developer based in Hamburg with a decade of professional experience spanning product, quality, and web engineering roles. He currently develops web solutions at Parship Group and has been a long-standing WordPress core contributor since 2016, bringing deep familiarity with the WordPress ecosystem. His open-source work includes backend improvements to the WP REST API and front-end enhancements to Gutenberg blocks, showing a rare blend of API-centric thinking and UI/UX sensitivity. Prior roles across agencies and product teams honed his pragmatic approach to shipping reliable features under production constraints. Academically grounded with a Master in Medieninformatik, he combines formal media-computing training with hands-on engineering. Colleagues would note his ability to move between low-level API fixes and user-facing editor improvements with equal fluency.
10 years of coding experience
Master, Medieninformatik, Master, Medieninformatik at Ostfalia - University of Applied SciencesBachelor, Media Systems, Bachelor, Media Systems at Hamburg University of Applied SciencesMedieninformatik, Medieninformatik at Fachhochschule Wedel
English, German
Github Skills (18)
editors10
javascript10
apidoc10
wordpress10
blocks10
ui-design10
editor10
uid10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
rest-api10
blockly10
react10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
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:80 reviews, 224 commits, 438 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sören primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Gutenberg project, focusing on block editor enhancements. Their work involved modifying existing blocks, such as the audio and video blocks, by adding new attributes, updating UI components, and improving the user experience with features like poster images and playback controls. Additionally, the user made several adjustments to improve the user experience and added UI consistency across the different blocks. Their commits also included updating the description and improving the overall UI/UX.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
WP-API/WP-API
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
The WP REST API has been merged into WordPress core. Please do not create issues or send pull requests. Submit support requests to the forums or patches to Trac (see README below for links).
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 10 PRs, 3 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Sören primarily contributed to the backend of the WP REST API project, as evidenced by modifications to several controller files. They fixed errors in error messages, updated code related to posts, users, and attachments, and improved documentation comments within the codebase. Their contributions suggest a focus on API functionality, code quality, and documentation improvements within the WordPress ecosystem.
mergedapiwordpress-apiwp-rest-apiwordpress
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