Life at Human Made

Human Made celebrates growth in the Asia Pacific region and launches a translated version of the official website in Japanese.

I’m excited to announce Kirsty Burgoine has joined us at Human Made. Kirsty joins us as a WordPress Engineer and is extremely passionate about web communities. She regularly attends and speaks at meetups, WordCamps, and other conferences within the broader industry. Kirsty is also the co-founder of ShropGeek, a resource for tech people living in…

We’re super pleased to welcome the amazing K. Adam White to Human Made as a Senior JavaScript Engineer. K. Adam has broad experience in open source and WordPress and has extensively used technologies such as JavaScript, React and Node to push the software to exciting places. His work is really impressive and since speaking at…

Working from home doesn’t just have an impact on Human Made’s employees. It also has an impact on all of the people who live with them.

We’re delighted to welcome Than Taintor to Human Made as a WordPress Engineer. With previous roles at Fusion and Janrain, Than is a full stack engineer with a lot of experience behind him. He is a self-taught polyglot programmer with a background in graphic design, and he is a huge advocate for free and open source software. Than has…

I’m so pleased to announce that Stuart Shields has joined us as a WordPress Engineer! Based in Toowoomba, Australia, Stuart comes to us from XWP where he’d worked as an Engineer for over a year and a half on VIP client projects. He’d already gained significant experience in a small team at a local Graphic Design agency,…

We’re sharing our handbook As we’ve grown and evolved as a company this year, we’ve thought hard about what we want to be. It’s easy to want to be inclusive, responsible, people-first; and it’s easy to say you’re those things too. We’ve learned a lot about who we are through writing down how we do…

‘We have no uniform, but we also have none of the workplace and social markers that help people in traditional jobs form their workplace identities.’

I’m thrilled to announce that Jon Ang has joined Human Made as a project manager. You may know Jon by kenshino, his WordPress.org username, where he has been doing fantastic work on the documentation project. In the short time he has been on trial with Human Made, Jon has already made a big impact on our…

It’s with huge excitement that I can announce that Mike Little is joining Human Made. Mike is the co-founder of the WordPress project, having forked a small blogging script, b2, with Matt Mullenweg. He has a long history with the project and brings with him unparalleled knowledge and experience of it. Mike will be joining…

It’s with great excitement that we’re welcoming Adrian McShane to Human Made as our Technical Project Lead. Adrian has deep history delivering technology across new and traditional big media, from his early work at The Telegraph, and his recent key role in bringing The Sun to WordPress, to founding several media startups of his own including tech.eu. Adrian will…