Stephanie Wells
Utah, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolStephanie Wells is a product-focused technology leader and founder with over a decade of experience building developer-friendly WordPress tools and SaaS products, best known for creating Formidable Forms while growing Strategy11 as CEO for 14 years. She blends hands-on backend engineering—demonstrated by contributions improving performance, caching and payment flows for the widely used Easy Digital Downloads plugin—with strategic leadership as Director at Hope Bravely and ongoing co-founder activity. A former RN who pivoted into coding, she brings a rare mix of clinical attention to detail and pragmatic product thinking that informs usability and reliability decisions. Comfortable managing infrastructure and shipping full-stack solutions, she has deep experience with Rails and Linux-hosted services from earlier engineering roles. Based in Utah, Stephanie pairs entrepreneurial grit with a focus on building tools that help other creators move faster.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science Nursing, Associate of Science Nursing at Weber State UniversityBrigham Young University
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
caching10
php10
ecommerce10
ed2551910
database-optimization9
apidoc9
api9
stripe4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 46 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie primarily focused on improving the Easy Digital Downloads plugin's back-end functionality. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to plugin updates, optimizing database queries, and improving caching mechanisms for API requests. They also worked on refining the license key functionality and fixing PayPal transaction links. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the plugin's performance, security, and overall user experience within the WordPress e-commerce environment.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
Strategy11/formidable-forms
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Formidable Forms LITE Plugin
Contributions:194 releases, 776 reviews, 3775 commits in 8 years
formidable-formsliteformidable
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