Life at Human Made

  • Siobhan McKeown Joins Human Made

    Siobhan McKeown Joins Human Made

    I’m amazingly happy to announce the Siobhan McKeown has joined Human Made as our Events Director. We’ve been lucky enough to get to work closely with Siobhan through this last year as we partnered to run A Day of REST, the conference  we put on in London recently. Throughout our time working together Siobhan’s experience…

  • Samantha Miller Joins Human Made

    Samantha Miller Joins Human Made

    It’s been public for a while, but today we would like to officially announce that the incredibly talented Samantha Miller has joined Human Made as a WordPress Engineer. Sam was previously the lead WordPress developer at Grapple and, along with our very own Matthew Haines-Young, is one of the organisers of the Leeds WP Meetup. Sam has spoken about WordPress development at several…

  • Fränk Klein Joins Human Made

    Fränk Klein Joins Human Made

    We can’t be more excited to welcome on board Fränk Klein, who’s joining Human Made as a WordPress Engineer. Fränk come to us from Automattic where he worked on both WordPress.com VIP and Premium Themes. His experience delivering WordPress at enterprise scale is a perfect fit for the kind of high-profile WordPress projects our reputation is built on. Fränk is…

  • WCEU 2015 & HM Retreat: The Lowdown

    WCEU 2015 & HM Retreat: The Lowdown

    It’s been a few weeks since we’ve returned from WordCamp Europe in beautiful Seville, and our company retreat in Zahara; and after settling back into the workflow it seems like an apt time to recapture the entire event. For many people in our team, this was the first time we all came together for WCEU…

  • John Blackbourn Joins Human Made

    I’m really excited to welcome John Blackbourn to Human Made as a full-time Senior WordPress Engineer. John brings a deep technical knowledge of WordPress and his experience applying that to the “real world” of client projects is a great fit for what we do. From his long history of WordPress contributions culminating in his leadership of the WordPress 4.1 release, to…

  • Petya Raykovska Joins Human Made

    I’m really excited to welcome Petya Raykovska to Human Made as a full-time Senior Project Manager. Petya brings a huge amount of experience and passion for her work and for the community at large. From her efforts evangelising the use of Open Source in the publishing industry as the co-founder of the OpenMedia Foundation, to her experience leading client…

  • Rob O’Rourke Joins Human Made

    I’m really excited to welcome Rob O’Rourke to Human Made as a full-time Senior WordPress Engineer. Although I hate buzzwords, Rob really is one of those rare unicorns; a developer who can design (or a maybe he’s a designer who can develop, I’m never sure :-). Rob joins us from long-time friends and UK-based competitors interconnect/it where he…

  • Super Sofia – WCEU and HM Retreat in photos

    What happened in Sofia at WCEU and the Human Made retreat? Ssshh don’t tell! On the way to Sofia from Australia, Brazil, Norway and UK. Some journeys were better than others! Exploring the city on the non-official and very rainy walking tour of Sofia. The joint GB-Ukrainian-Italian-Russian team came third in the Paintball Battle of…

  • The big Human get together!

    As a remote company it’s not often we get the chance to see each other in person, so we’re all very excited about the next few weeks. At the end of September almost the whole of Human Made will be getting together for 10 days. We are kicking off with WordCamp Europe 2014 in Sofia…

  • Tom in the WP Think Tank again

    Tom is taking his regular seat on the WP Think Tank hangout on Tuesday 26th August at 10pm GMT. WP Think Tank, organised and hosted by Troy Dean of WP Elevation, is live panel hangout of WordPress revolutionaries delving into the latest hot topics and future developments in the world of WordPress. This is the…

  • Joe and the Mongol Rally adventure

    We really believe that life should be about more than work. With a globally distributed, remote working team it is very easy to just keep on working. This is great, but it can’t go on forever; sometimes it makes a huge difference to take a complete break and have some proper time away.  That’s why…

  • Jenny Wong Joins Human Made

    I’m really excited to welcome Jenny Wong to Human Made as a full-time WordPress Developer. Jenny has been doing fantastic work in the PHP community for a while and is somewhat of a rising star in the UK WordPress community, having organised the recent WP Contributor day and co-organised the upcoming, inaugural WordCamp Manchester. Despite all this…