Chris Hardie
Owner And Publisher at Kind and Curious Ventures LLC
Richmond, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolChris Hardie is a journalist-turned-technologist and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience building WordPress and Laravel-based products while running a community-focused weekly newspaper. As owner and publisher of Western Wayne News, he blends editorial leadership, advertising and subscriber strategy, and hands-on software development to serve thousands of readers in Richmond, Indiana. He previously led and staffed Special Projects at Automattic, delivering custom WordPress sites for high-profile clients and shaping team processes, hiring, and technical architecture. Chris founded WP Lookout, a bootstrapped service that monitored plugin and theme updates for WordPress professionals, and continues consulting and building web tools through Kind and Curious Ventures. Comfortable moving between code, business strategy, and community engagement, he brings rare cross-disciplinary fluency in newsroom workflows and open-web engineering. He holds a BA in Computer Science and an MA in Journalism, a combination that explains his focus on civic tech and sustainable local news models.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Earlham CollegeHS Diploma, HS Diploma at North Central High SchoolWalnut Hills High SchoolMaster of Arts - MA Journalism, Master of Arts - MA Journalism at Ball State University
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Github Skills (200)
foursquare10
automation10
fitbit10
vagrant10
home-automation10
exceptions10
virtualbox10
wordpress-plugin10
python10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
wordpress-api10
vagrantfile10
hook10
wordpress10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
a8cteam51/wordpress-importer-fixers
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
WP CLI utilities for fixing up WXR imports used in site merges, partial imports, etc.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
clipartialwp-cliwordpressimports
ChrisHardie/debug-bar-widgets
Mar 2016 - Aug 2024
WordPress plugin that adds a debug bar panel to display registered widgets
Contributions:14 PRs, 19 pushes, 13 branches in 8 years 6 months
widgetwordpresspaneldebugwidgets
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