Mike Dickson
Senior WordPress Developer at NESN
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Dickson is a Senior WordPress Developer and technical leader with over 17 years of web development experience and a dozen years focused on enterprise WordPress, multisite, and WooCommerce ecosystems. He excels at turning monolithic codebases into modular, testable platforms and has led large refactors, CI/CD pipelines, and accessibility and security audits for high-traffic properties. At NESN he built complex integrations like the NESN Bets platform and consolidated multiple properties into a maintainable multisite architecture while driving automated testing and developer documentation. As a long-time freelancer and maintainer, he thrives on rescuing broken projects and creating repeatable build pipelines using CircleCI, Composer, npm, and webpack. A committed community contributor and WordPress Core editor and speaker, he pairs hands-on engineering with clear technical writing that keeps teams productive. Based in Ottawa, he also builds niche JavaScript tools for photographers—an example of his habit of solving real-world problems with lightweight, reusable software.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons., Geographic Information Systems, BA Hons., Geographic Information Systems at Carleton University
Github Skills (73)
wordpress10
monorepo10
cli10
wp-cli10
package10
npm10
database-table10
lerna10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
vagrant9
woocommerce9
gutenberg9
ecommerce9
build-system9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
theMikeD/genesis-taxonomy-images
Jul 2019 - Dec 2025
WordPress Plugin
Contributions:5 releases, 6 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 years 6 months
wordpresswordpress-pluginpluginwordpress-api
theMikeD/add-seo-meta-tags
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
A refactoring of the add-meta-tags plugin
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 3 months
meta-tagsrefactoring
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