Simon Wheatley
Senior Manager Of Product Management at Pendo.io
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Wheatley is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 13 years of experience helping organisations see the broad picture across products and systems. He has led product teams and developer tooling at Automattic’s WordPress VIP, driving analytics, customer feedback systems, and scalable integrations for high-profile customers like NASA and The White House. Equally comfortable in code and infrastructure, Simon has contributed backend improvements to the widely used Jetpack plugin and enhanced Vagrant-based WordPress development tooling, reflecting hands-on DevOps and backend expertise. He co-founded and served as CTO of a web agency acquired by Automattic, and now combines non-exec leadership at CW Studio with senior product roles including a recent position at Pendo.io. Known for coaching product and engineering leaders, he turns customer insight into measurable operational improvements and smoother onboarding experiences. A former theatre, film and television student, he brings a creative, user-focused perspective to technical product strategy.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Theatre Film and Television, Bachelor of Arts - BA Theatre Film and Television at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
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Github Skills (22)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
bash10
automation10
php10
automations10
vagrant10
devops10
git9
caching9
documentation9
mysql8
ubuntu6
datetime-format6
google-maps-api6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
Aug 2013 - Aug 2014
An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 2 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and automation of the VVV WordPress development environment. They contributed to provisioning scripts, including the installation of WordPress i18n tools, required dependencies (gettext), and database configuration. Furthermore, they modified the build process to include installing WordPress coding standards and running site setup scripts, making the development process more efficient.
vagrantdevelopingvmsvarying-vagrant-vagrantswordpress
Automattic/jetpack
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed primarily to the back-end logic of the Jetpack plugin, focusing on improving code documentation, introducing filters, and addressing specific functional areas. They added and refined documentation, adding descriptions for existing filters, and correcting typos in the code. Further, they modified the related posts cache functionality, likely to improve performance and efficiently utilize persistent object caching. Finally, the user also made adjustments to filter settings and template callbacks.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
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