Jamie Marsland
Head Of WordPress YouTube at Automattic
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Marsland is a digital strategist and entrepreneur who has spent over two decades building and transitioning publishing and marketing businesses into high-value online ventures. As Founder of Pootlepress he created WordPress plugins used by tens of thousands of sites and personally trained over 5,000 people, and today he leads the WordPress.org YouTube channel at Automattic, growing it from 35k to six figures in months. His background spans board-level technical and commercial roles—MD and CTO positions where he shifted legacy print businesses to subscription and services models—giving him rare fluency across product, revenue and community. Jamie combines hands-on product and content creation with a knack for scaling audience-driven education, evidenced by a 200k+ subscriber personal channel and widely used open tools. Based in the UK, he is known for translating complex WordPress workflows into practical training that empowers publishers and developers alike.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
.Cheltenham Grammar School
Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
gutenberg9
gutenberg-blocks8
php8
css8
storefront8
woocommerce6
page-builder2
canvas1
plugin1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pootlepress/blank-canvas-child-theme
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 6 months
pootlepress/sfx-align-menu-right
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 4 months
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