Tom Willmot

Prior to founding Human Made with Joe in 2010, Tom cut his professional teeth with lead technical roles on some of the earliest examples of large-scale sites built with WordPress, including the ground-up rebuilds of both Geek.com and Digital Trends. As CEO Tom splits his focus between the big-picture vision of where Human Made is going and how we'll get there to the day-to-day of supporting humans.

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  • Welcome to Human Made: Than Taintor

    Welcome to Human Made: Than Taintor

    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…

  • Welcome to Human Made: Stuart Shields

    Welcome to Human Made: Stuart Shields

    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,…

  • Jon Ang joins Human Made

    Jon Ang joins Human Made

    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…

  • Mike Little joins Human Made

    Mike Little joins Human Made

    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…

  • Adrian McShane joins Human Made

    Adrian McShane joins Human Made

    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…

  • What happened at A Week of REST?

    On 5th September we welcomed developers from all over the world for our very first developer workshop – A Week of REST. It was wonderful to bring together such an engaged group of developers to the beautiful Peak District for four days of in-depth learning about the WordPress REST API and React. Why organise a…

  • A Week of REST: 5th – 9th September 2016

    Today we’re excited to announce our latest event, A Week of REST, a five-day developer workshop in Matlock, Derbyshire, from 5th – 9th September 2016. As a company, we have a lot of in-house knowledge about the REST API: our developers have been a huge part of developing the feature, we use it for client projects…

  • 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…

  • Introducing our WordPress REST API White Paper

    Introducing our WordPress REST API White Paper

    At Human Made, we’re pretty enthusiastic about the WordPress REST API. Today we’re excited to release our WordPress REST API white paper: Talking to 25% of the Web: An in-depth report and analysis on the WordPress REST API.

  • 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…

  • Making use of the WordPress REST API Infrastructure

    Making use of the WordPress REST API Infrastructure

    WordPress 4.4 was released and it shipped with infrastructure for the WordPress REST API. As a company, we are invested in developing this great WordPress feature and we love using it on client projects. Using the WordPress REST API in production If you’re wondering how you can leverage this new feature, we have an interesting example…

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