Mike Mcalister
Principal Design Engineer at Foureyes Studio
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mcalister is a Principal Design Engineer and founder with 13 years of engineering experience and two decades of product and design practice, now running Foureyes Studio to help companies reboot brands and bring SaaS products to life. He sold his boutique WordPress product company Array—after scaling it to hundreds of thousands of sites and millions in revenue—to WP Engine, where he continued as a principal engineer shaping platform and product efforts. Mike blends human-centered design, front-end engineering, marketing and content strategy to create high-value, revenue-generating digital products, and he teaches that craft through his Liftoff Creator Course. Based in Milwaukee, he pairs pixel-perfect aesthetics with pragmatic product thinking, and is known for turning niche, well-crafted ideas into sustainable businesses.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Graphic Design, Associate's degree, Graphic Design at Illinois Valley Community College
Github Skills (33)
minecraft10
bukkit10
spigot10
wordpress10
genesis10
plugin10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
atomic10
migrate10
jetpack9
php9
traffic9
js8
react8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OllieWP/ollie
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
A finely-crafted WordPress block theme by Mike McAlister
Contributions:28 releases, 3 reviews, 22 PRs in 2 years
designtemplatewordpresswordpress-theme
ArrayHQ/atomic-blocks-theme
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:70 commits, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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