Summary
Clayton Collie is an engineering manager and senior web engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-traffic WordPress sites and leading teams at agency scale. He has technical leadership experience managing sites that handle over a million requests per day and has worked with enterprise and government clients such as the California DMV and Jefferies Financial Group. Skilled across PHP, React, headless architectures, CI/CD, and observability tools, he also drives standards—testing, linters, and accessibility—while mentoring engineers and owning roadmaps. A long-time WordPress Core contributor and self-taught developer who studied fine arts, Clayton combines an artisan’s attention to craft with pragmatic systems thinking to deliver resilient, performant web platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Jesuit Dallas
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Ceramic Arts and Ceramics, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Ceramic Arts and Ceramics at Southern Methodist University
Spanish, English