Coen Jacobs
Developer at Level Level - Full Service WordPress Agency
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolCoen Jacobs is a seasoned developer with 14 years of experience building backend and WordPress-focused solutions across multicultural teams and agencies in the Netherlands and beyond. Currently at Level Level, he combines hands-on engineering with a focus on process streamlining and team learning to deliver reliable, maintainable products. His open-source work includes improving a GitHub-backed WordPress plugin updater—optimizing API usage, reducing database load, and adding private repo support—showing practical performance and integration expertise. Past roles span CTO and product leadership through hands-on backend development at companies like Radish Concepts and WooThemes, reflecting both technical depth and product sensibility. Coen is pragmatic about tooling and developer experience, often tackling subtle infrastructure inefficiencies that pay off at scale. He is available for hire and brings a collaborative, improvement-oriented approach to new projects.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Avans Hogeschool Den Bosch
English, Dutch, German, French
Stackoverflow
121reputation
898reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (12)
wordpress10
apim10
php10
api10
github9
develop8
plugin-development8
object-oriented-programming7
git6
mysqli6
gitignore6
git-submodules6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
radishconcepts/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater
Oct 2012 - Nov 2014
This class is meant to be used with your Github hosted WordPress plugins. The purpose of the class is to allow your WordPress plugin to be updated whenever you push out a new version of your plugin; similarly to the experience users know and love with the WordPress.org plugin repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Coen focused on improving the WordPress plugin updater functionality. They implemented a mechanism to prevent unnecessary transient recreation, enhancing performance by reducing database load. Further contributions included storing GitHub data in a class instance to optimize API calls and merging upstream branches, resolving conflicts, and updating the plugin's setup. The user also modified the plugin to support private repository updates, indicating involvement in enhancing plugin configuration and integration.
wordpress-plugin
radishconcepts/woocommerce-vatinfoeu
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:103 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 months
wordpresswoocommerce
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