Tom Chute
Director at Top Baller
Almada, Setúbal, Portugal
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTom Chute is a director and founder with 15 years of experience blending people operations, brand strategy, and product-focused community building from Portugal. As a founding partner of Top Baller he helps scale a grassroots football media brand that has surpassed 500 million views, while also leading people-centric services through Block & Tackle to support startups and SMBs. Formerly Head and then Director of People Operations at Human Made, he pairs operational rigor with hands-on HR programs—hiring, onboarding, training and leadership coaching—for distributed teams. He began his career in communications and sustainability, bringing a practical environmental and community-minded perspective to team culture and employer branding. An active contributor to open-source WordPress tooling, he’s implemented UI and flexible field features in the popular Custom Meta Boxes project, reflecting a mix of product, engineering empathy and people leadership. Based between Almada and Setúbal, he’s comfortable operating at the intersection of media, tech and people operations to turn early-stage ideas into scalable programs.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Environmental & Coastal Management, BSc Hons Environmental & Coastal Management at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
php10
metaboxes10
ui-design7
css6
javascript6
html5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
humanmade/Custom-Meta-Boxes
Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
Lets you easily create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the Custom Meta Boxes project by implementing new features and refining existing functionality. They added a new text_url field type, which included sanitization and validation. Further contributions included incorporating cloneable text fields and repeatable fieldsets, enhancing the flexibility of the plugin. The commits also involved UI styling adjustments to enhance the user interface.
custom-fieldsfieldsmetaboxesmind
humanmade/hm-backup
Nov 2011 - Dec 2014
The core backup engine that powers BackUpWordPress & WP Remote
Contributions:217 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
wordpressphppowersbackup
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