Chris Wiegman
Engineering Manager at Fingerprint
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Wiegman is an engineering manager and tech leader in Chicago with 13 years of professional engineering management and over two decades of hands-on development across WordPress, developer tools, and developer experience. He builds and scales humane, privacy-focused teams and platforms—recently growing three core teams from a few engineers to a planned 17 while driving API and JS Agent reliability for a SaaS product. A former pilot turned software engineer and educator, he blends operational discipline from aviation with a teacher’s mentality, mentoring engineers and lecturing on CS and aviation topics. Chris has a strong open-source track record, contributing backend fixes and search enhancements to projects like ElasticPress that improve WordPress search and developer workflows. He’s led product turnarounds and migrations—from sunsetting Faust.js with user-first transition plans to moving stacks and compliance programs as a VP—favoring pragmatic, metrics-driven approaches. Comfortable toggling between code, process, and strategy, he prioritizes ethical, sustainable technology and team growth.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
wordpress10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
apidoc9
api9
wp-cli9
html6
nginx6
collation6
slice6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
10up/ElasticPress
Jun 2015 - Oct 2020
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 32 PRs, 75 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `elasticpress` repository, a search and query engine for WordPress, by addressing issues related to WP-CLI integration. The changes include adding missing headers to WP-CLI GET calls and implementing host fallback functionality for the Elasticsearch API. The user's work also involved adding filters to modify search results and the data indexed into Elasticsearch, and they addressed code formatting issues within the mapping file.
queryintranetquery-enginewp-querywordpress-api
ChrisWiegman/chriswiegman-theme
Aug 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:291 pushes, 22 branches, 117 tags in 3 years 4 months
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