Mike Straw
Technical Customer Success Engineer at commercebuild
Athens, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMike Straw is a Technical Customer Success Engineer with 10+ years of software and customer-facing experience, focused on building scalable full-stack solutions and enabling enterprise eCommerce integrations. He blends frontend and backend expertise (React, JS, PHP, Perl, MySQL) with hands-on experience in WordPress/WooCommerce and Docker-based workflows to solve platform issues for high-touch clients. A longtime Automattic Code Wrangler and Special Projects engineer, he’s skilled at creating tooling and automations that make support teams more effective and at maintaining large partner sites. Mike pairs technical delivery with strong customer advocacy—translating support signals into product improvements and clear documentation. His background includes systems development for higher education and a decade of disciplined service in the US Air Force, reflecting an uncommon mix of operational rigor and developer craftsmanship. Based in Athens, Ohio, he also writes for the long-running This Is True newsletter, showing a knack for concise, engaging communication.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master Business Administration, Master Business Administration at TUI UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of Arkansas Grantham
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Github Skills (122)
woocommerce10
wordpress-themes10
gutenberg10
javascript10
jetpack10
wordpress10
js10
nodejs10
ecommerce10
redux10
plugin10
php10
password-manager10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
GeoJunkie/wftda-rankings-widget
Sep 2019 - May 2025
League WFTDA Ranking Widget
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 30 PRs in 5 years 8 months
flutterrankingwidgetleague
GeoJunkie/hello-world
Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
My first repository (kinda)
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
pythonfirst-repository
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