Hey! My name is Barry, thanks for dropping by 🙂 I’m a developer that, after 18 years of professional development experience, still loves to code. I’ve worked for over 10 years with WordPress, having worked at Yoast and WooCommerce before starting my own plugin-bases product company Never5.

WordPress plugin you might know me from are:
– Related Posts for WP
– Download Monitor (sold in 2021)
– What The File
– WP Car Manager
– Post Connector

I’m also interested in (larger) WordPress related backend work and e-commerce. I’ve helped people connect external API’s to their WordPress website, large WP data migrations / cleanups and create optimized and fast web shops.

I’m currently working on Scanfully, a Performance & Site Health monitoring for WordPress.

Not only that, but I’m also passionate about game development. Where with software, we’re mostly solving problems / optimize work flows, etc. In game development, we create emotions. After releasing Stream Racer, my first game on Steam, and seeing people play it live on Twitch. I’ll never forget how happy it made me to see people laugh and have a great time because of something I created. I’m currently still working on Stream Racer, creating new content for it on a regular basis.

Next to creating my own, I also love helping others create their games. I’m available for hire to create specific features or solve issues in games. Examples of these features are Twitch.tv integrations, backend / API connections, being able to deal with high peak traffic launches (scaling servers), Steam integration and consultancy.

If you’re interested in working together, I’d love to hear from you. I’m mainly interested in backend / API / data related work. This can be in WordPress, games or a custom system you’ve created. I love working in languages like Golang, PHP, C# but have worked in many others in the past. I can also help you set up your server(s), in horizontally scaling NoSQL solutions or a single LNMP stack.

You can follow me on Twitter @barry_kooij