Than Taintor

Nathaniel Taintor (‘Than’ for short) joined Human Made as a WordPress Engineer in September of 2017. He’s interested in the challenges of innovating interfaces at scale while maintaining enterprise-grade code; helping teams develop cohesion through code review, style guides, and process, and staying on the cutting edge of front-end development. Before joining the team at Human Made, Than was a senior platform engineer at Fusion Media Networks, a product and marketing engineer with Janrain, and a freelance developer for many years. He has released and maintained several plugins over the years, and is a current maintainer of the Shortcake project.

Articles

  • How to manage unknowns as a web engineer

    How to manage unknowns as a web engineer

    As a web engineer working across multiple projects and platforms, there are many things we’re expected to know. However, it’s important to stress that we don’t need to know every single technology or concept we’re likely to come across. Rather, it’s how you manage the unknown that tests your mettle as an engineer, and there…

Case Studies

  • Bringing the block editor to Artefact

    Bringing the block editor to Artefact

    Home » Archives for Than Taintor Home » Archives for Than Taintor Case study Bringing the block editor to Artefact Delivering a unified publishing experience for a world-class design agency: Artefact and the Block Editor Industry Design Services Bespoke Development Humans Than Taintor K Adam White Industry Design Services Bespoke Development Humans Than Taintor K…

  • Migrating Siemens from AEM to WordPress

    Migrating Siemens from AEM to WordPress

    Home » Archives for Than Taintor Home » Archives for Than Taintor Case study Migrating Siemens from AEM to WordPress Delivering improved editorial workflows, multilingual support and an events platform. Industry Technology, Publishing Services Bespoke Development, Consultancy & Strategy Humans John Blackbourn Gemma Plank Than Taintor Tom J Nowell Matthew Haines-Young Shadi Sharaf Industry Technology,…

  • Harvard Gazette: Supercharging the higher ed publisher experience

    Harvard Gazette: Supercharging the higher ed publisher experience

    Home » Archives for Than Taintor Home » Archives for Than Taintor Case study Supercharging the higher education publisher experience With ambitions to create a pillar for advancing their brand and institution, we partnered with the Harvard Gazette to deliver a platform and design system built to evolve. Industry Higher Education Services Development, Consultancy, Editorial…

  • University of Illinois Chicago: Automation & efficiency

    University of Illinois Chicago: Automation & efficiency

    Home » Archives for Than Taintor Home » Archives for Than Taintor Case study University of Illinois Chicago: Automation & efficiency UIC partnered with Human Made to address scalability and maintenance bottlenecks and ensure that their digital infrastructure could support the university’s growing needs. Industry Higher Education Services Development, Consultancy, Audit Humans K Adam White…