Timi Wahalahti
Open Source Community Specialist at Sange Coop
Jyväskylä, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolTimi Wahalahti is an Open Source Community Specialist and senior backend developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining WordPress-first projects from Finland. He combines hands-on development and DevOps experience—authoring and optimizing a long-lived, ultra-lightweight WordPress starter theme and contributing UI improvements to the popular Query Monitor debugging plugin. Currently at Evermade, he balances community-facing stewardship with technical delivery, having progressed there from developer to senior developer and now community specialist. A pragmatic engineer who prefers “the WordPress way,” he brings deep practical knowledge of theme tooling, build pipelines and admin UX tweaks that keep projects lean and maintainable. Outside work he’s been involved in cooperative leadership roles dating back to 2010, signaling a blend of technical skill and organizational commitment.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Media assistant, Media assistant at Omnia, Espoon seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä
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Github Skills (17)
localstorage10
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
wordpress10
css10
gulp10
devtools10
lit10
php10
sass9
html8
performance-analysis8
performance-monitor8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
digitoimistodude/air-light
Mar 2016 - Nov 2022
💨 WordPress starter theme - designed to be minimal, ultra-lightweight (< 20 kB) and easy for all kinds of WordPress projects. 7+years/1000+hours of development and still updating daily! We prefer the original WordPress way of doing things so no strange templating languages or frameworks here.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 124 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Timi primarily contributed to the WordPress starter theme by configuring and optimizing the development environment. They configured the Gulp BrowserSync for external access, added filters to set the Yoast SEO metabox priority, and addressed the WordPress admin bar visibility based on the environment. The user also made changes related to CSS and script enqueuing, along with implementing functionality related to admin bar styling and admin menu cleanup. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the theme version and SendGrid configurations.
templating-languagesultrapreferupdatingstarter-theme
johnbillion/query-monitor
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
The developer tools panel for WordPress
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Timi primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Query Monitor plugin. Their commits implemented features such as a side panel for displaying debugging information, adding a toggle to change the panel's position, and enabling saving of panel width and position preferences using local storage. These changes involved modifying CSS and JavaScript files to achieve the desired visual and interactive behaviors.
query-monitorwordpressphpdeveloper-toolsdebugging
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