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.

Articles

  • WP Remote deserves a better home. So we’re selling it.

    Update: WP Remote has now been acquired, read our announcement.

  • In Parallel – The Open Source Agency Conference

    In Parallel – The Open Source Agency Conference

    In Parallel is taking place on 17th & 18th March in the Clarendon Centre, Brighton. There are innumerable open source communities, many of which that have agencies operating within them. We wanted to meet people running agencies in parallel projects, to see what we could learn from one another and how we can collaborate in…

  • A Day of REST – the WordPress REST API conference

    A Day of REST – the WordPress REST API conference

    We are really excited to announce the first of some events that we have been working on. A Day of REST is a one day conference dedicated to the WordPress REST API. It is taking place on 28th January 2016 at Conway Hall, London. If you follow anything in WordPress, you’ll know that the REST…

  • 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…

  • Five for the Future

    At WordCamp Europe, Matt put forward the notion that companies should contribute 5% of their effort back to the WordPress project. The thinking being that by doing so we can ensure the long term success of WordPress itself. I think a good rule of thumb that will scale with the community as it continues to grow is…

  • 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…

  • Ryan McCue Joins Human Made

    I’m incredibly excited to welcome Ryan McCue to Human Made as a full-time Engineer. Ryan is already well known within the community for his contributions to WordPress Core as well as his other open source projects. Having followed his impressive open source work for several years and then finally getting to meet him in person…

  • Noel Tock Joins Human Made

    I’m incredibly excited to announce that Noel Tock is joining Joe and myself as a Partner at Human Made Limited. We’ve been working closely with Noel for the past 2 and a half years, both on client projects and in building happytables together. Over that time we’ve grown to respect each other immensely; Noel’s design…

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