Shane Pearlman
Principal at The Distillates
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Pearlman is a veteran technology entrepreneur and principal with 25+ years of building and exiting companies, most notably founding Modern Tribe and co-creating The Events Calendar, a widely adopted open-source WordPress events framework. He combines hands-on product and technical leadership with business-building experience—running a distributed digital agency that scaled to 115+ remote team members and millions of downloads before acquisition. Based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Shane now invests through Portmanteau and Pearlman Real Estate, developing solar and property projects across multiple countries. A compelling communicator and community builder, he has spoken at SXSW and contributed widely to the conversation on remote work from 2006–2020. Beyond tech and investing, he runs The Distillates, a niche spirits community that blends curation, single-cask selection and hands-on craft. His background in anthropology and Spanish informs a global, people-first approach to product, teams and investment.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoSpanish, Spanish at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de HidalgoCultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
Spanish, French
Github Skills (3)
wordpress10
documentation10
php8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Aug 2010 - Jun 2013
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:33 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the documentation of the project, with the majority of commits focusing on "wordsmithing documentation" and "updating template tag documentation structure." Their work involved refining descriptions, parameter explanations, and code examples within the project's template tags. Additionally, they made minor updates to the project's description and language strings.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
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