Justin Sternberg
Development Manaager at Awesome Motive, Inc.
Southport, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Sternberg is a seasoned WordPress and JavaScript engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience building custom sites, plugins, and APIs for clients ranging from blogs to enterprise e-commerce. Currently a Development Manager at Awesome Motive, he has led product teams at OptinMonster and contributed significant fixes and features to well-known open-source projects like WP eCommerce, WooCommerce’s Storefront, and the CMB2 snippet library. Justin combines product-minded leadership with deep backend PHP and frontend JavaScript skills, routinely improving form handling, custom fields, and theme engines. As a long-time freelancer and open source maintainer, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and a track record of shipping robust, user-focused solutions. Based in Southport, NC, he also runs DsgnWrks, where a public portfolio reveals a breadth of plugins, libraries, and tools that aren’t always obvious from his corporate roles.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science Visual Communications, Associate of Applied Science Visual Communications at Brown College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
woocommerce10
snippet10
storefront10
back-end-development10
sni10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
css10
snips10
cmb210
php10
javascript9
oembed9
databases7
database7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CMB2/CMB2-Snippet-Library
Feb 2015 - Feb 2021
CMB2 Code Snippet Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:231 commits, 45 PRs, 208 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the `cmb2/cmb2-snippet-library` repository, which is a PHP-based snippet library for WordPress development. Their contributions involved implementing new custom field types and functionalities, including an address field, an autocomplete field, and features for handling file lists and settings pages. They also focused on enhancing form functionality, adding validation, and ensuring proper data saving.
cmb2phpsnippetssnippets-librarywordpress
WebDevStudios/Custom-Metaboxes-and-Fields-for-WordPress
Apr 2012 - Mar 2016
Lets you easily create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:384 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the development of custom metaboxes and fields for WordPress. Their work included adding features to existing field types, such as enabling select and oEmbed types, as well as improvements to existing functionalities. Further contributions focused on error handling and performance improvements, such as the implementation of better oEmbed URL validation. They also enhanced various aspects of the code, bumping the version number and making CSS adjustments.
metaboxes
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