Ryan Mccue
Director Of Product at Altis
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Mccue is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 19 years of experience building high-scale web platforms; he currently leads product for Altis DXP at Human Made, which serves billions of requests monthly. Previously the company's first Director of Engineering, he shaped coding standards, tooling and career progression for a 35+ engineer organization while still shipping code. A two-decade WordPress veteran and prolific OSS maintainer, he created and led the WP REST API project into core and authored widely used libraries like Requests and SimplePie. He blends deep backend engineering expertise—HTTP, caching, and security—with commercial product responsibilities such as pricing, customer success and operational cost optimisation. Based in Edinburgh, he combines hands-on technical contributions with strategic product leadership, and has a track record of turning complex platform problems into robust, production-ready solutions.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (61)
json10
rss10
caching10
debugging10
debug10
file-management10
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
plugin-development10
css10
wordpress10
code-standards10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
WP-API/WP-API
Jun 2013 - Jan 2017
The WP REST API has been merged into WordPress core. Please do not create issues or send pull requests. Submit support requests to the forums or patches to Trac (see README below for links).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 969 commits, 167 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the WordPress REST API project, focusing on modifications within the class-wp-json-server.php file. Their work involved the enhancement of the JSON API server by incorporating features such as content-type handling and authentication checks, including the integration of authorization and authorization via nonce verification for cookie-based authentication. Furthermore, the user was also responsible for adding and modifying methods for creating and updating posts, including handling for author information, post meta, and other data-related configurations to the REST APIs.
mergedapiwordpress-apiwp-rest-apiwordpress
WP-API/docs
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
The content for developer.wordpress.org/rest-api
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the documentation generation process for the WP-API project. They ported a regeneration script from Ruby to PHP, integrating Composer for dependency management (Requests, Twig), and utilized Twig templating to generate Markdown files for the API documentation. Their work involved fetching data from a demo API, processing it, and formatting it into user-friendly documentation.
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