About
I’m Niels, a WordPress and WooCommerce engineer with experience on the WooCommerce core team at Automattic. These days, I help friends’ WordPress agencies with experience and technical know-how.
Active in the WordPress community for years, I’ve organised WordCamps and Meetups across Europe and Asia. I’m originally from Germany, where I studied computer science before working in the Netherlands as a web developer and business analyst. Since 2014, I’ve been travelling in South-East Asia, squashing bugs between palm trees and rice fields.
Find me on
WordPress.org | GitHub | LinkedIn | Xing
Skills
Web Development
- Expert: PHP, JS, CSS, SCSS, WordPress Core, WooCommerce Core
- Advanced: TS, MySQL, React, MySQL, Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer
WordPress Specific
- Expert: Custom Themes, Custom Plugins
- Advanced: Gutenberg Blocks, ACF, Multisite, Polylang
- Intermediate: Elementor Add-ons
Tools & Workflows
- Advanced: Git / GitHub, Composer, NPM / PNPM
- Intermediate: Webpack, SVN
Soft Skills
- Expert: Communication, Remote work
- Advanced: Training & coaching
- Languages: German (native), English (fluent), Dutch (fluent)
Contributions
- Core Contributor
- Documentation Contributor
- Meetup Organizer
- Meta Contributor
- Pattern Author
- Photo Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Theme Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
- WordPress.tv Contributor
WordCamps
2024
- WordCamp Sydney 2024: Attendee
- NextGen Jakarta 2024: Open desk with the topic Ask Niels Anything
2023
- WordCamp Asia 2023: Organiser
2022
- WordCamp Gresik 2022: Speaker with the talk Spinning up a WooCommerce testing environment in seconds using a custom WP-CLI command and Workshop Host with the topic Development of classic and block plugins
2020
- WordCamp Asia 2020: Organiser
2019
- WordCamp Europe 2019: Organiser
- WordCamp Jakarta 2019: Organiser, Speaker with the talk WP-CLI Hacks and Workshop Host with the topic Gutenberg for Beginners
- WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019: Speaker with the talk WP-CLI Hacks
2018
- WordCamp Europe 2018: Staff of the Jetpack stand
- WordCamp Islamabad 2018: Speaker with the talk Gutenberg. The New WordPress
- do_action Cape Town 2018: Table lead
2017
- WordCamp Kuala Lumpur 2017: Speaker with the talk Gutenberg for Modern Editing
- WordCamp Jakarta 2017: Organiser and Speaker with the talk Gutenberg for Modern Editing
- WordCamp Singapore 2017: Speaker with the talk Importance of DTAP (Development, Testing, Acceptance & Production) environments
- WordCamp Ubud 2017: Organiser, Speaker with the talk Persist changes the proper way and Workshop Host with the topic Development of classic and block plugins
2016
- WordCamp Denpasar 2016: Organiser and Speaker with the talk Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production: How to develop WordPress sites using multiple environments
Meetups
Asia
- WordPress Meetup Bali, Indonesia: Organiser and Speaker
- WordPress Meetup Jakarta, Indonesia: Attendee and Speaker
- WordPress Meetup Singapore, Singapore: Attendee
Europe
- WordPress Meetup Amsterdam, Netherlands: Attendee
- WordPress Meetup Mannheim, Germany: Attendee and Speaker
- WordPress Meetup Karlsruhe, Germany: Attendee