Sean Hayes
Senior Software Engineer at Emstar Inc
Naperville, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSean Hayes is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and leading WordPress-focused web architectures for media, sports, and enterprise clients. He combines deep PHP and front-end skills (React, JavaScript, HTML/CSS) with development management experience—mentoring teams, defining QA and release processes, and liaising directly with stakeholders. His work includes migrating major news sites to WordPress VIP, integrating paywalls and third-party services, and building React-based tooling to streamline editorial workflows for large sports organizations like the NBA. As founder of a Chicago WordPress consultancy, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with production-grade engineering, often tackling performance, scalability, and migration challenges. An active contributor to the WordPress project (notably around the 3.8/3.9 era), he maintains a pragmatic balance between extensible architecture and practical client needs. Based in Naperville, IL, Sean is known for translating complex editorial and business requirements into maintainable, testable systems that ship reliably.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Maths, Physics, Computing, Associate's degree, Maths, Physics, Computing at Richmond Upon Thames College
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Github Skills (18)
wordpress10
wordpress-api10
wordpress-plugin9
syndication9
timber8
apple-news7
thumbnails7
management6
news-ticker6
jquery6
intranet6
seo6
publish5
admin5
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
seanchayes/featured-image-admin-thumb
Apr 2015 - Jan 2024
Featured Image Admin Thumbnails
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 8 years 10 months
thumbnailsfeatured-imageadmin
seanchayes/largo
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
A WordPress framework for news websites. Finely crafted and expertly honed by the Institute for Nonprofit News.
Contributions:9 pushes, 15 branches in 8 months
wordpress-frameworkweb-appwordpressnonprofitnews-websites
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