Stewart Ritchie
Director And Founder at Powered By Coffee
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStewart Ritchie is the founder and lead developer of Powered by Coffee, a London-based WordPress VIP agency that partners with publishers and media brands to build high-performance, secure, and revenue-focused sites. With 13 years in the industry and an MSc in Information Technology from the University of Glasgow, he blends hands-on development with strategic product thinking around paywalls, subscriptions, ad tech and web syndication. Stewart’s team specializes in complex integrations—Google Ad Manager, membership systems and event platforms—so clients can scale digital revenue without compromising UX or compliance. He also hosts the Scale podcast, exploring how publishers use technology to gain competitive advantage, reflecting his deep ties to the media ecosystem and practical insights into future-facing publishing tech.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Information Technology at University of Glasgow
English
Github Skills (27)
oop10
woocommerce10
wordpress-themes10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
mailgun10
twig10
timber10
template-engine9
gutenberg9
stripe-payments8
crm6
markdown6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pbc-web/mailgun-wpmail
May 2016 - Jun 2022
A WordPress Must Use Plugin that replaces the wp_mail() function with a wp_mail that uses Mailgun's API
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 12 commits in 6 years 2 months
mailgunwordpress
pbc-web/debug-tools
Feb 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:7 releases, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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