Matthew Mcachran
Owner at McAchran Consulting LLC
Kernersville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcachran is an experienced senior web engineer and consulting owner with 11 years building enterprise-tier web applications and a long track record in PHP, search (Elasticsearch/Meilisearch), databases, and Linux-based deployment. He has led backend development and migrations for large WordPress and custom CMS projects, architected integrations with systems like Salesforce and e-commerce platforms, and improved performance across caching, Docker, and Nginx stacks. As a contributor to 10up’s ElasticPress, he has hands-on experience improving internationalized search mappings and backend query behavior for widely used WordPress search tooling. Comfortable mentoring teams and documenting onboarding processes, he blends deep troubleshooting instincts with practical automation to streamline developer environments and production reliability. Based in Kernersville, NC, he runs McAchran Consulting while taking short-term contractor roles to tackle performance and server-level challenges for clients.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Novell Administrator Computer Network Administration, Certified Novell Administrator Computer Network Administration at Advanced Technology CenterManagement Information Systems General, Management Information Systems General at Chowan UniversityBachelor of Science Business Administration; Management Accounting, Bachelor of Science Business Administration; Management Accounting at East Carolina University
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Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
searching10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
10up/ElasticPress
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the ElasticPress WordPress plugin. Their work focused on adding and modifying settings related to language support for Elasticsearch queries, including the addition of a language settings field within the dashboard and updates to default mapping languages. They also refactored code by removing comments and included changes related to the integration of different languages supported by Elasticsearch, demonstrating knowledge of search engine configuration. These changes likely aimed at improving search accuracy and internationalization within the plugin.
query-enginewordpresselasticsearchsearchwordpress-plugin
mmcachran/WDS-Dynamic-Dropdowns
Oct 2016 - May 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 8 months
dynamic-versionwordpressdropdownselect2wordpress-plugin
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