Iain Poulson
Principal Product Manager at ForwardFlip
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarIain Poulson is a Principal Product Manager at WP Engine with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping WordPress plugins and products. As founder of Pole Vault Web and ForwardFlip, he combines entrepreneurial product ownership with deep back-end engineering chops, especially around performance-sensitive PHP and WordPress integrations. He contributes to well-known open-source projects—such as background processing and S3/CloudFront plugins—where his work on memory handling, cron stability, and AWS region handling reflects an attention to robustness in production. Based in Bournemouth, he bridges product strategy and low-level implementation, able to move from roadmap decisions to PR-level fixes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to tricky edge cases, like SQL parsing and duplicate-file handling, that often surface only at scale.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
parser10
back-end-development10
wordpress10
php10
aws10
amazon-s310
sql10
file-management9
cron9
regular-expression9
memory-management8
mysql8
advanced-custom-fields6
wp-api6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
deliciousbrains/wp-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
Automatically copies media uploads to Amazon S3 for delivery. Optionally configure Amazon CloudFront for even faster delivery.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 225 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Iain's commits primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements to the Amazon S3 and CloudFront WordPress plugin. They addressed issues related to file handling and URL generation, ensuring correct behavior when removing local files and handling duplicate filenames. The contributions also involved refactoring code and improving the S3 client's region handling, thereby optimizing the plugin's interaction with AWS. The work involved changes to PHP files.
amazon-cloudfrontamazonfasteramazon-s3cloudfront
deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
WordPress background processing class
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 11 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Iain primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the WordPress background processing class. Their commits include refactoring the code, such as moving class existence checks, and addressing memory-related issues. They also made improvements to the memory handling, converting bytes correctly and integrating with external contributions. The user also addressed issues related to the cron functionality within the class.
wordpresswordpress-pluginbackground
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