Stephen Blythe
Head Of Policy & Process at Automattic
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Blythe is a lawyer-turned-policy leader with 11 years' experience shaping trust, safety and legal processes for global platforms, currently Head of Policy & Process at Automattic. He specialises in internet law, copyright and freedom of expression, blending academic rigour from an LLM in Internet Law & Policy with hands-on policy work for WordPress.com. Stephen has coordinated university distance-learning modules on e-commerce and privacy, supervised dissertations, and helped scale Trust & Safety operations from Community Guardian to senior lead. Based in Glasgow, he pairs his legal and technical fluency with a creative offbeat streak—making chiptune music on Game Boys and shooting film photography—bringing a human-centred perspective to digital governance.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Kirkintilloch High SchoolLLM, Internet Law and Policy, LLM, Internet Law and Policy at Strathclyde UniversityLLB, Law, Human Rights, LLB, Law, Human Rights at The University of Glasgow
Github Skills (53)
javascript10
wordpress10
redux10
api10
wordpress-plugin10
nodejs10
react10
debounce9
macbook-pro9
alfred-workflow8
plugin8
css7
usps6
macos6
traffic6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
clickysteve/qmk_keyboard_layouts
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
clickysteve/Alfred-Workflows
Oct 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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