About

Björn Holine is a Lead Web Engineer, Meta Platforms at 10up with over ten years of professional agency experience in WordPress development. He specializes in developing custom themes, plugins, and functionality. He has worked on projects for household names to small mom and pop shops and appreciates the variety and challenges this field of work delivers. Björn is proficient in programming languages such as PHP/MySQL, JavaScript, React, Hack (Hacklang), HTML, SASS, LESS, CSS, and jQuery. He is also experienced in debugging and profiling using Xdebug and Webgrind. He is well-versed in content management systems such as WordPress and Facebook CMS, and has expertise in eCommerce systems such as WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads. He is also familiar with ad management systems and services such as DoubleClick for Publishers. Björn's local development environments include Docker and Vagrant (VVV), and he is skilled in version control systems such as Git and Mercurial. He uses IDEs such as PHPStorm and Visual Studio Code for his development work. He is also proficient in graphic design software such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Björn has worked as a Project Lead at Crowd Favorite, where he led development staff through technical work based on projects, broke down projects into detailed actionable tasks for developers to work on, scheduled development staff to work on tasks based on project requirements and availability, and participated in regular meetings to coordinate with department heads, management, and staff. He also worked as a WordPress Developer at 3five Inc, where he developed new custom WordPress websites from the ground up and updated existing sites, developed custom functionality and refactored outdated and/or less effective code, and trained clients on new sites and large code updates. Björn holds a degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business. He has relevant experience of 14.53 years in web development, backend development, Docker, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and research scientist.