Gary Kovar
Principal Software Engineer at Lone Rock Point
Concord, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorGary Kovar is a Principal Software Engineer and developer coach with 15+ years of experience building resilient, scalable web systems and guiding teams through complex migrations and integrations. He blends deep expertise in WordPress enterprise architecture and Laravel backend development—delivering multi-tenant e-commerce platforms, REST APIs, Livewire apps, and serverless functions with an emphasis on maintainability and CI/CD. As a LinkedIn Learning instructor and one-on-one coach, he makes advanced topics approachable through live coding and real-world demos, and he’s helped thousands of developers level up in PHP, Laravel, and AI-assisted workflows. Gary uniquely focuses on practical, production-ready use of AI tools—teaching teams how to integrate them reliably and cost-effectively into developer workflows rather than treating them as novelty. Based in Concord, NC, he pairs technical leadership with people-first mentorship, and outside of work he keeps bees, volunteers, and raises a family.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (59)
wordpress10
open-source10
generator10
youtube10
yeoman10
api10
wordpress-plugin10
launchpad9
api-rest9
populate9
spacex9
wp-cli9
cli8
django8
user-experience8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
binarygary/db-checkpoint
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Adds a new command to WP-CLI so you can treat your DB like a save point in a video game.
Contributions:5 releases, 79 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
wp-cli
Lone-Rock-Point/Lone-Rock-Point.github.io
Feb 2024 - Jul 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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