William Earnhardt
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Apocalypse Trivia, LLC
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Earnhardt is a Senior Director of Software Engineering with 13 years of experience scaling global SaaS teams and leading multi-discipline engineering organizations responsible for products used by millions. He has deep expertise in the WordPress ecosystem, having led engineering for Yoast SEO (13M+ installs), the YITH WooCommerce suite, and integrations across major hosting brands while contributing front-end improvements to the high-profile Gutenberg project. At Bluehost he progressed from senior engineer to head of engineering, driving infrastructure scaling, CI/CD automation, security architecture, and high-performing distributed teams. He also brings higher-education scale experience from UNC Chapel Hill, where he grew multisite WordPress deployments to tens of thousands of sites and built campus-wide emergency content workflows. A practitioner who still ships code, he pairs hands-on product and UI work with executive leadership to turn developer-centric platforms into reliable, business-driving services. Based in Cary, NC, he combines product-minded technical strategy with a knack for operationalizing large open-source ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Communication Studies, Media Studies and Production, BA Communication Studies, Media Studies and Production at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
javascript10
gutenberg10
react10
html9
css8
php7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
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:27 commits, 61 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the Gutenberg block editor for WordPress. Their work involved modifying existing components and creating new ones, as seen in commits that focused on transitioning post statuses, silencing PHP errors, and updating image block functionality. They also addressed styling and component behavior related to the post-editing experience and included updates for the permalink feature.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
earnjam/wordpress-develop
May 2018 - May 2020
WordPress Develop, Git-ified. Synced from git://develop.git.wordpress.org/, including branches and tags! This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.
Contributions:13 PRs, 67 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 11 months
branchesversion-controlsubversionwordpresssubmit
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