Meaghan Thompson is a senior software operations leader who transforms chaotic processes into scalable systems and ensures teams actually adopt them, currently leading regional operations and AI strategy at PLATO before moving to a Senior Manager, ServiceNow role at WestJet. With six years of formal experience and prior leadership at Automattic supporting platforms used by over a billion people, she blends strategic vision with hands-on quality engineering and continuous improvement. She’s delivered measurable impact—zero voluntary turnover on a global team, a 50K+ beta community, 30% fewer post-launch issues, and helped integrate $250M+ acquisitions—by marrying operational rigor with people-first change management. A former iOS QA and automation contributor to the high-profile WordPress-iOS repo, she brings practical test automation know-how alongside executive-facing strategy. Meaghan is drawn to problems where strategy meets execution, able to brief executives in the morning and coach AI agents in the afternoon.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate , Quality Management - IT, Certificate , Quality Management - IT at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Mount Royal University
Mobile Developer (iOS) & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:26 reviews, 20 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Meaghan focused on updating and maintaining the iOS screenshot generation tests for the WordPress iOS application. They made changes to the test suite, including adding and modifying screenshots for different application screens. Furthermore, the user addressed formatting issues and optimized test execution by replacing swipe actions with coordinate taps. They also worked on skipping editor tests and adjusting launch arguments for testing purposes.
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Meaghan Thompson - Senior Manager, ServiceNow at WestJet