Ash Shaw
Founder at LightSpeed
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAsh Shaw is a founder and seasoned web technologist with over two decades of digital design and development experience, currently leading LightSpeed — a remote-first agency that builds high-performance, user-focused WordPress and WooCommerce sites for travel and tourism. He combines hands-on engineering (from Linux and system administration roots to modern block-based WordPress development) with design-system thinking, shipping an open-source LSX Design System that maps Figma tokens to theme.json for faster, accurate handoffs. A community-minded speaker and contributor, Ash has presented at WordCamp Europe, appeared on industry podcasts, and shares workflows publicly to improve accessibility and project delivery. He embraces emerging AI tooling—GitHub Copilot, VS Code extensions and agent protocols—to streamline code reviews and release cycles, blending pragmatic automation with thoughtful UX. Based in Cape Town, he mentors other practitioners and prioritizes processes that reduce launch risk while keeping projects on schedule.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
LPI Institute, Linux IT Professional Certification, LPI Institute, Linux IT Professional Certification at Linux Professional InstituteMatric, English, Afrikaans, Maths, Science, Accounting, History, Matric, English, Afrikaans, Maths, Science, Accounting, History at Paarl Boys HighQuirk Education, WebPR+Online Reputation Management, Quirk Education, WebPR+Online Reputation Management at WebPR+City Varsity, Advanced Web design, City Varsity, Advanced Web design at City VarsityPaarl Boys JuniorMCSE, Microsoft System Engineering, MCSE, Microsoft System Engineering at Microsoft Self-Study MSCE CurriclumCore Group, Mac OS X Support Essentials, Core Group, Mac OS X Support Essentials at Apple Training
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
displays10
wordpress-block10
wordpress10
makers10
tour-operator9
populate9
custom-post-type9
blocks9
health9
desktop9
responsive9
nutrition9
wordpress-plugin9
post-type9
gutenberg-blocks9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lightspeedwp/lsx-videos
Oct 2017 - Nov 2023
LSX Videos is a post type plugin for the LSX Theme
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
lsx-theme-extensionswordpressvideoslsx-themevideo
lightspeedwp/minimal-lsx-child
Jul 2017 - May 2020
A child theme for LSX called "Minimal", light on design and light on code. Built as an example of how LSX can be trimmed down to its essentials without seeming "thin".
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
lightwordpress-themethinlsx-themeas-built
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