Julian Weiland
Senior JavaScript Engineer at 10up
Wiesloch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarJulian Weiland is a Senior JavaScript Engineer based in Wiesloch, Germany, with 11 years of experience building web applications and WordPress integrations. He currently ships front- and back-end features at 10up, bringing practical full-stack expertise to analytics, tag management, and UX-focused enhancements. His open-source contributions include meaningful work on Google's widely used Site Kit for WordPress—implementing Analytics 4 settings, validation, and test coverage—and improvements to the FoundationPress starter theme such as Gutenberg integration and SVG build support. Julian’s background spans agency and product work, where he has refactored mobile navigation, fixed subtle layout bugs, and improved developer tooling. He combines a pragmatic engineering approach with an eye for polish in frontend behavior and test-driven reliability. Colleagues would describe him as a steady problem-solver who balances maintenance discipline with feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
wordpress10
unit-testing10
theme-development10
sass10
php10
javascript10
foundation10
gutenberg9
react9
css9
user-interface9
html8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
olefredrik/FoundationPress
Jun 2016 - Jul 2019
FoundationPress is a WordPress starter theme based on Foundation 6 by Zurb
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 56 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to improving the WordPress theme FoundationPress. Their work involved fixing bugs related to image display and figure tag styling, as well as refactoring the mobile navigation. The user also implemented features such as adding support for custom post type archive breadcrumbs, and enhanced the theme's integration with the Gutenberg editor. Furthermore, the user updated the build process to include SVG file handling.
wordpressfoundationzurbfoundationpresssass
google/site-kit-wp
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 241 commits, 40 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Julian implemented features related to Google Tag and Google Tag Manager settings, primarily focusing on the Analytics 4 settings modules. They added new settings, implemented validation for the `googleTagID`, and updated and created unit tests to support these changes. Further contributions include adding a CTA for incomplete user input settings and making updates to e2e tests related to user input settings.
wordpresssite-kit
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