Professional Journey
I spent 10 years at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WooCommerce. Five of those years on the WooCommerce team as a backend developer, building the systems that power millions of ecommerce sites. Now I work with agencies and operators who need senior-level WordPress and Shopify development without hiring full-time.
I got here through 20+ years of solving progressively harder technical problems. I ran my own agency for five years, building and maintaining WordPress sites for industrial and commercial clients while handling their search marketing strategy. I took a 2-person ecommerce company and built the infrastructure that grew it to 12 people and $14.7 million in revenue over five years. Before that, I built websites for small businesses when only Fortune 500 companies had an online presence, led a support team covering 25,000 internet subscribers, and wired up computer labs in public schools.
The platforms change. The job stays the same: someone hands me a problem nobody on their team can solve, and I figure it out.
Clients don’t wait for me to ramp up. I scope the problem, find the constraint, and start shipping. When the project ends, I’d rather you know enough to handle things yourself than need me for every future change.
Life Beyond Code
I grew up in Louisiana, spent quite a few years in Houston, and eventually landed in Arizona with my wife and a small zoo of dogs, cats, and reptiles. Most weekends I’m either renovating our house or standing over a smoker. Fifteen years in Texas gave me a permanent relationship with the grill, but my favorite dishes come from my Southern and Cajun roots.
If your agency needs a senior developer for complex builds without a full-time hire, here’s how the retainer works.