Doug Aitken
Lead Of Payment Operations
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDoug Aitken is a payments and operations leader with 16 years of experience blending technical hands-on work, customer support, and product-focused leadership at Automattic and WooCommerce. Currently Lead of Payment Operations based in Dundee, he has progressed from frontline support and documentation roles to interim product director responsibilities, demonstrating strong domain knowledge across payments, technical support, and process improvement. He maintains the open-source Remote In Tech project, contributing front-end fixes and search features to a widely used list of remote-friendly tech companies, reflecting a commitment to community and remote-work advocacy. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, clear technical communication, and a touch of humour, Doug pairs people-first leadership with a practical engineering mindset cultivated across distributed teams.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
front-end-development10
html9
css9
woocommerce6
wordpress6
php6
react4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
remoteintech/remote-jobs
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
A list of semi to fully remote-friendly companies (jobs) in tech.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:603 reviews, 587 commits, 1144 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily worked on front-end improvements and bug fixes within the repository. They fixed merge conflicts and made changes to the site/templates/base.html file, including adding a favicon and other meta tags. The commits show modifications to the companies-table.js file, implementing search functionality, and the 404.html file.
jobs-searchjobsearchremotejob-boardjobseeker
dougaitken/github-for-developers-7
Nov 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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