Matthew Haines-young
Engineering Manager at Human Made
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Haines-young is an experienced engineering manager based in Leeds with 15 years in web engineering, currently leading teams at Human Made. He grew through hands-on WordPress development to senior and managerial roles, combining deep product-focused engineering with people leadership. His open-source contributions include practical bug fixes and refactors to Human Made’s Custom Meta Boxes project, showing attention to developer ergonomics and reliable UI handling for complex field types. Comfortable across full-stack PHP/JS WordPress ecosystems, he excels at improving legacy codebases and shipping maintainable solutions. His academic background in European politics gives him a broader perspective on collaboration and stakeholder alignment within distributed teams.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, European Politics, Society, and Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, European Politics, Society, and Economics at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (6)
wordpress10
php10
metaboxes10
javascript6
html5
css5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
humanmade/Custom-Meta-Boxes
Jul 2012 - Sep 2016
Lets you easily create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:672 commits, 19 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the custom-meta-boxes repository by fixing bugs related to repeatable groups and the display of date and time fields. Their commits also involved refactoring code, including the use of getter/setter methods, and adding support for customizable strings. The user's work demonstrates a focus on improving existing features, addressing display issues, and improving code organization.
custom-fieldsfieldsmetaboxesmind
wpleeds/wp-meetup-theme
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:54 commits, 6 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 months
wordpresswordpress-themewordpress-plugin
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