Andy Peatling
Founder at bymiles.ai
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAndy Peatling is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 18 years of experience building web platforms and shipping products used by millions. He led transformative projects at Automattic—including Calypso and major WordPress editor improvements—that boosted mobile engagement, performance, and monetization, and he founded BuddyPress, an open-source social plugin with millions of installs. Andy blends full‑stack expertise (React, TypeScript, PHP, Node) with applied AI work, recently spearheading an agentic AI website builder using MCP standards and LLM tooling. He’s equally at home driving product strategy, mentoring engineers, and contributing detailed UI/UX improvements across high-profile open-source repos like Gutenberg and Jetpack. Based in Vancouver, he now runs bymiles.ai, continuing to merge practical UX-first design with cutting-edge AI.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General at Millfield SchoolBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Brunel University of London
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Github Skills (28)
editors10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
apidoc10
wordpress10
css10
buddypress10
blocks10
s610
ui-design10
editor10
uid10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
buddypress/buddypress
Mar 2008 - Sep 2010
BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2601 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy made several contributions, primarily focusing on enhancing the backend functionality. They addressed registration fixes, implemented and maintained core functionalities with focus on details and made adjustments to group member settings and related functionalities. Additionally, the user worked on activity stream updates.
wordpresssvntracpull-requestlink
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 71 commits, 197 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the `wp-calypso` repository by implementing features related to the Full Site Editing (FSE) functionality, specifically within the WordPress.com environment. Their work included updating header content, removing and updating navigation menu blocks, and adding support for page menu fallbacks. They also worked on the addition of custom CSS features and adding a button edit feature in the sites preview area, demonstrating an understanding of both front-end and back-end code within the project.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
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