Thad Allender
Co-Founder at Graph Paper Press
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThad Allender is a serial founder and full-stack software engineer with 13 years of experience building product-first businesses that scale. He founded Graph Paper Press, a widely used WordPress theme and plugin shop with 500k+ subscribers, and led Visual Society to a successful acquisition after automating e-commerce tools for photographers. Now co-founder of EcoHome, Thad is applying Laravel, Livewire, Vue and Tailwind to create personalized renovation roadmaps that make homes healthier, more comfortable, and more affordable. Comfortable wearing both technical and business hats, he pairs hands-on development with product-market intuition—having driven over $1M in sales at his first startup—and a background in photography-driven tools that informs his user-focused design sensibility.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Journalism, BS, Journalism at University of Kansas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
wordpress10
audio10
wordpress-plugin10
protect10
on-the-fly8
eloquent7
imgix7
nodejs6
php6
media-library6
laravel6
forms6
jquery6
gruntjs6
ajax6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
graphpaperpress/Sell-Media
Oct 2012 - Aug 2022
a WordPress plugin that allows anyone to sell, license and protect images, videos, audio and other media files.
Contributions:14 reviews, 1330 commits, 59 PRs in 9 years 11 months
protectwordpressvideosmedia-filesaudio
graphpaperpress/gpp-customizer
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 19 days
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