James Kemp
Core Product Manager For WooCommerce at Automattic
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Kemp is a product leader and former founder with 11 years of experience building and shipping WordPress and e-commerce solutions, now serving as Core Product Manager for WooCommerce at Automattic. He blends hands-on back-end development—having contributed to the flagship woocommerce/woocommerce repo by improving attribute handling and UI consistency—with product leadership roles that scaled Iconic from startup to acquisition. Based in Leicester, he pairs technical fluency in plugin architecture with entrepreneurial instincts honed running IconicWP and freelancing. Notably, his work focuses on making core product data management more robust and flexible, improving both admin and storefront experiences.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Music Technology, Bachelor's degree Music Technology at De Montfort UniversityMusic Technology, Music Technology at Oaklands CollegeGCSE, GCSE at Roundwood Park School
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Github Skills (6)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
php10
ecommerce10
html8
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 19 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily worked on enhancing the WooCommerce plugin's attribute handling functionality. Their contributions involved modifying code related to displaying and managing product attributes, specifically focusing on options and labels in the admin interface and frontend templates. These changes included escaping HTML, adding parameters to filters for greater flexibility, and ensuring the correct display of attribute labels within the user interface. This suggests a focus on improving the core product data management aspects of the e-commerce platform.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
jamesckemp/setary-plugin
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:15 releases, 26 PRs, 64 pushes in 7 months
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