Dominik Schilling

Backend Developer

Dominik behind his MacBook

Dominik is a developer with a passion for open source. He’s always thrilled to solve new and complex challenges with state-of-the-art technologies.

What he does

He lives the WordPress Dream. Started as a hobby, he now always is busy with making WordPress better and better, for everyone.

Dominik is a WordPress Core Developer and led the WordPress 4.6 release in 2016. As the Technical Lead of the Polyglots team and Lead Developer of GlotPress he makes sure that millions of users can use WordPress in their native language. Beside that he also contributes to the WordPress.org and Security Team.

In his daily business he’s developing diverse projects with state-of-the-art technologies with a strong focus on performance and security.

His latest talks

State of WordPress Internationalization in 2019 @ WordCamp Nordic 2019

WordPress Translations Demystified @ WordCamp Tokyo 2018

Customizer – Make it Live @ WordCamp Bern 2017

Trunk is now 4.6-alpha.

And a lot of Q&As. ?

Selected projects

Pro Helvetia Website

Pro Helvetia is the official Swiss arts council; their mission is to promote Swiss arts and culture with a focus on diversity and high quality. As the Swiss Confederation’s cultural promotion institution, they support projects that are of national interest.

Moving Media Website & Ad Calculator

To deliver their advertising clients a whole new experience in booking ads, we built a WordPress based web application. Advertisers now get a preview of their ads on the buses and trams.

Swiss Moving Media Website

To deliver their advertising clients a whole new experience in booking ads, we built a WordPress based web application. Advertisers now have the chance to book their ads with just one click for four cities: Genève, Basel, Lausanne, and Zurich.

MAAG Music & Arts AG Event-Websites

For MAAG, we not only redesigned and developed their new main site bymaag.ch, but also all of their show websites which include for example the popular swiss musical “Ewigi Liebi”.

Kaufleuten Website & Payment Integration

For an event location, the accessibility of its offers is the most important thing of all. Kaufleuten asked us to redesign their website with the “mobile first” approach, as well as to integrate an online payment system so that their customers can purchase tickets to club, concert and cultural events directly and from anywhere.Today, not …