Rick Hurst
Senior Software Engineer at WordPress VIP
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRick Hurst is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bristol with over two decades of full‑stack experience and 14 years of focused professional practice delivering scalable web and CMS solutions. Currently a technical stakeholder at WordPress VIP, he solves enterprise content‑management challenges using WordPress, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript/Node.js and complex third‑party integrations. His background as a freelance consultant and co‑founder spans agencies, NGOs and enterprise clients—including Google, Aardman Animations, Amnesty International and the NHS—giving him a rare mix of product, client‑facing and systems engineering experience. He has shipped mission‑critical e‑commerce and API platforms, built integrations with Salesforce and OKTA, and even brought a patented high‑power LED product to market, reflecting an appetite for hardware‑adjacent entrepreneurship. Known internally as a practical code wrangler, he pairs hands‑on development with mentoring and technical content stewardship for learning and credentialing programs.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc 2:1 Environmental Science, BSc 2:1 Environmental Science at University of WolverhamptonWisbech Grammar School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
plugin10
seo9
metadata9
wordpress9
yoast9
wordpress-plugin9
meta-tags9
schema-org9
opengraph9
xml-sitemap9
structured-data8
php8
vip7
headers2
collaboration2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rickhurst/eatStatic
Jul 2011 - Mar 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 9 years 10 months
rickhurst/vip-login-limit-debug
Aug 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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