Phil Wylie
Development Manager at Kanuka Digital
Stafford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Wylie is a Development Manager with 14 years of hands-on experience building secure, bespoke WordPress and WooCommerce solutions across agencies and product-focused teams. He specialises in back-end development, having implemented complex eCommerce and LearnDash LMS features—such as tiered credit subscriptions, front-end team management, CSV user import and custom reporting—for clients in diverse sectors. A proactive security practitioner, Phil has audited and responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in third-party plugins and maintains several open-source WordPress components, including extensions to the CMB2 custom fields library and a WordPress.org plugin. He progressed from web developer to lead developer and now manages development at Kanuka Digital, combining technical ownership with team leadership. Trained in Computing Science (Web Development) at Staffordshire University, he pairs academic grounding with practical agency experience and a reputation for shipping auditable, reusable code. Not obvious at first glance: beyond feature work he often contributes developer-facing tools that get bundled into themes and plugins used by other teams.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Science: Web Development, Computing Science: Web Development at University of Staffordshire
Github Skills (42)
metaboxes10
wordpress10
select210
wordpress-plugin10
google-maps10
php9
woocommerce8
ecommerce8
php-class7
css7
commerce7
custom-fields7
shopping-cart6
redirect5
svg5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mustardBees/cmb-field-select2
Apr 2013 - Aug 2016
Select2 field type for Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress
Contributions:5 releases, 36 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 5 months
field-typemetaboxeswordpresscustom-metaboxesfield
mustardBees/cmb_field_map
Jan 2012 - Sep 2020
Google Maps field type for Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress
Contributions:5 releases, 49 commits, 6 PRs in 8 years 9 months
field-typemetaboxeswordpresscustom-metaboxesfield
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