Magnus Jepson
Co-Founder at WooCommerce
Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolMagnus Jepson is a seasoned founder and builder with 14+ years driving product and company growth from Stavanger, Norway. As co-founder of WooCommerce (formerly WooThemes), he helped create the most popular open-source eCommerce plugin for WordPress and led a team through a successful acquisition by Automattic in 2015. He combines hands-on product and engineering experience with a keen investor’s eye as an active angel through Sprettert, backing 30+ early-stage Norwegian startups. Comfortable working remotely since 2008, Magnus blends bootstrapped startup grit with enterprise-scale integration knowledge from his time advising and leading the Woo team at Automattic. He started his career developing POS systems for Nordic retailers, a background that informs his practical, commerce-focused product decisions. Notably, he continues to bridge community-driven open source and commercial product strategies, helping others scale platforms the way he did with WooCommerce.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
IT-candidate, IT-candidate at Norges Informasjonsteknologiske Høgskole (NITH)
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (13)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
php10
shopping-cart10
ecommerce10
commerce10
nav8
jquery-ui7
staging6
css6
jquery6
storefront6
responsive5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mjepson/woocommerce
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
wordpresswordpress-pluginwoocommerceecommerce
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