Tarei King
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolTarei King is an experienced WordPress engineer and engineering manager with 12 years designing and delivering digital experiences for organisations through Human Made and Altis DXP. Based in Auckland, he blends hands-on full‑stack development—especially front-end enhancements like TinyMCE/WYSIWYG work—with team leadership and product-focused delivery. He helps organisations drive customer engagement, reinforce brand value and improve operations by translating business needs into pragmatic technical solutions. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved widely used WordPress tooling such as custom meta box implementations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem‑solver who isn’t afraid to “break things” to learn how they work and make them better. His background in creative technologies gives him a strong mix of technical craft and user-centred thinking.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Creative Technologies, A-, Bachelor of Creative Technologies, A- at Auckland University of Technology
Github Skills (8)
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
metaboxes10
html9
css8
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
humanmade/Custom-Meta-Boxes
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Lets you easily create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tarei contributed to the development of custom meta boxes, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects. They addressed issues with the TinyMCE editor, ensuring correct initialization and positioning. The user also added a version constant and made updates to the enqueue scripts, demonstrating knowledge of the project's structure and dependencies. Further commits involved improvements to the field-wysiwyg.js, further highlighting work within the front end.
custom-fieldsfieldsmetaboxesmind
BronsonQuick/Flair
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
A repository for the Foundation 5 Starter theme based on Underscores _s
Contributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
underscorescssstarter-themefoundation
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