Life at Human Made

  • 2020 at Human Made

    2020 at Human Made

    For Human Made and our clients, 2020 has been a year marked by adaptation. With the world changing quickly and drastically around us we’ve had to adjust our own plans, and continue to support our clients and customers whilst they did the same. It’s been a year that’s tested us as people, a company, and…

  • Taking our company retreat online

    Taking our company retreat online

    Every year, Human Made gets together somewhere in the world for our annual company retreat. As a fully remote-working organisation this is an important part of our calendar as it gives us time together to renew relationships, make connections, hang out, and work on some of the bigger picture projects that are so much easier to…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Ivan Kristianto

    Welcome to Human Made: Ivan Kristianto

    We’re excited to welcome Ivan Kristianto as a Senior Web Engineer to Human Made! Ivan has a wealth of experience in WordPress and has over 15 years experience in developing web applications with most his career spent working in digital agencies. Ivan is an active contributor to the WordPress community having organised several WordCamp’s and…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Gareth Welton

    Welcome to Human Made: Gareth Welton

    We’re excited to welcome Gareth Welton as a Senior Project Manager to Human Made! Gareth has a wealth of experience with his career history beginning in design and publishing and moving to web design and software development and later to project management.  Having previously freelanced with us, we are thrilled to now have him as…

  • Our commitment to combating institutional racism

    Our commitment to combating institutional racism

    Black lives have always mattered, and at Human Made we echo many of the sentiments expressed by Nesrine Malik in her article, ‘Fighting the racism that killed George Floyd requires more than just hashtags’.  Over the past few days we have had renewed discussions about how we can best use our platform and privilege, as…

  • How we’re responding to COVID-19

    How we’re responding to COVID-19

    As a remote company with employees, clients, partners, and friends all over the world, we’ve been monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19 as it has evolved. We’ve been watching and learning as governments and businesses have begun responding, and have been talking both internally as a team, and externally with our HR, legal, and safety and…

  • Keeping your team effective while working from home

    Keeping your team effective while working from home

    Companies all over the world are cancelling travel, stopping events, and sending employees to work from home. If the coronavirus outbreak continues, this situation will likely only get worse, with teams who are used to co-located working now finding themselves sat at laptops in living rooms or readjusting to life in a home office. At…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Stephen Edgar

    Welcome to Human Made: Stephen Edgar

    We are truly excited to welcome Stephen Edgar as a Web Engineer to Human Made! Those who have been around the WordPress contributor community will almost certainly be familiar with Stephen’s WordPress.org username @netweb. He has been a bbPress developer and committer for years, as well as a WordPress, Gutenberg and BuddyPress Build/Test Tools component…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Mitesh Pandey

    Welcome to Human Made: Mitesh Pandey

    We’re delighted to welcome Mitesh Pandey as Senior Project Manager at Human Made! Mitesh holds Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM) and Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) certificates. With over seven years of experience in Agile project management, he is augmenting our Client Services team for our growing engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. Having worked with Human Made as…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Sander van Dragt

    Welcome to Human Made: Sander van Dragt

    We’re excited to welcome Sander van Dragt to Human Made as a Senior Web Developer! Sander started his career on the web 14 years ago, developing custom CMSs and systems automation in the education sector. In 2016, he joined a leading media publishing company to help build and support a WordPress-based platform for regional newspapers…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Joeleen Kennedy

    Welcome to Human Made: Joeleen Kennedy

    We’re delighted to welcome Joeleen Kennedy to Human Made as a Web Engineer! Joeleen has been working with WordPress for more than ten years in a variety of positions, including leading an agency front end team. Before joining Human Made, she was a Concierge WordPress Engineer for Pressable, working on projects for Automattic’s Special Projects…

  • Human Made named Top WordPress Dev Company

    Human Made named Top WordPress Dev Company

    We’re really excited to announce that we’ve been awarded Clutch’s 1000! To celebrate this, we’re taking a look back at this fabulous year.