Lew Ayotte
Senior Engineering Manager at Vultr
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolLew Ayotte is a seasoned engineering leader with 20+ years of experience shipping scalable web and cloud-native platforms, currently leading engineering at Vultr in the Atlanta area. He combines hands-on software development with strategic team leadership, having built and guided high-performing teams across WordPress SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise IT. From directing three engineering teams at Liquid Web to driving open-source WordPress initiatives and AWS-based hosting in freelance WordPress work, he consistently aligns product roadmaps with user experience and operational reliability. His background spans from Linux administration and FERPA/HIPAA-conscious student information systems to modern Laravel/LAMP ecosystems, demonstrating comfort across legacy systems and modern stacks. Notably, he contributed to WordPress core and authored plugins, and led efforts to scale a WordPress SaaS platform used on tens of thousands of sites. A University of Maine CS graduate with additional studies in biblical studies, he brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary perspective and a track record of shipping reliable platforms at scale.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of MaineBachelor of Arts, Biblical Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Biblical Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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Github Skills (78)
vnc-client10
wordpress10
artifacts10
google10
aws10
wordpress-plugin10
chatgpt9
ai9
gemini9
webui9
azure9
plugins9
arraybuffer9
novnc9
php9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zeen101/leaky-paywall-subscriber-downloads
Sep 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years
leenkme/leenkme
Mar 2013 - Oct 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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