Nathaniel 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

  • Green Street News: Unifying Global News Expansion with Altis and WordPress

    Green Street News: Unifying Global News Expansion with Altis and WordPress

    Case study Green Street News: Unifying Global News Expansion with Altis and WordPress About Green Street News Green Street News is a preeminent provider of actionable commercial real estate research, news, data, analytics, and advisory services in the U.S. Canada, and Europe.  For 40 years, Green Street has delivered trusted intelligence and data on the…

  • Harvard Gazette: Supercharging the higher ed publisher experience

    Harvard Gazette: Supercharging the higher ed publisher experience

    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. About the Harvard Gazette First established in 1906 and moving online in 2010, the Harvard Gazette serves as the…

  • University of Illinois Chicago: Automation & efficiency

    University of Illinois Chicago: Automation & efficiency

    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. About the University of Illinois Chicago With 34,000+ students, 12,000 employees, 16 colleges, and a major public medical centre, UIC is Chicago’s largest…

  • Migrating Siemens from AEM to WordPress

    Migrating Siemens from AEM to WordPress

    Case study Migrating Siemens from AEM to WordPress Delivering improved editorial workflows, multilingual support and an events platform. About Siemens Siemens is a multinational technology company specialising in industry, infrastructure, transport and healthcare. Siemens Ingenuity is a brand the company uses to share ideas, stories and expertise. It serves as the company’s community and content…

  • Bringing the block editor to Artefact

    Bringing the block editor to Artefact

    Case study Bringing the block editor to Artefact Delivering a unified publishing experience for a world-class design agency: Artefact and the Block Editor About Artefact Artefact is an award-winning design agency headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Rob Girling and Gavin Kelly in 2006, Artefact has grown into one of the leading independent design firms globally,…