Tom Mcfarlin
Senior Software Engineer at Awesome Motive, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolTom Mcfarlin is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and refining WordPress-focused solutions, currently delivering at Awesome Motive in Atlanta. He combines deep backend expertise with practical full-stack contributions—most notably maintaining and improving widely used WordPress boilerplates for plugins and widgets, where he’s improved code structure, localization, and adherence to WordPress conventions. Previously he led his own shop (Pressware) and served as a senior backend engineer at WebDevStudios, bringing entrepreneurial instincts to product-focused engineering teams. A Georgia Tech computer science graduate, he pairs long-term open-source stewardship with pragmatic refactors that improve readability, maintainability, and developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
css10
web-widgets10
php10
localization10
javascript10
widgets10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tommcfarlin/WordPress-Widget-Boilerplate
Jul 2011 - Mar 2019
[WordPress] The WordPress Widget Boilerplate is an organized, maintainable boilerplate for building widgets using WordPress best practices.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on refactoring and improving the codebase of a WordPress widget boilerplate. Their contributions included updating the localization files, modifying how constants were defined, and refactoring the registration and enqueuing of scripts and stylesheets. The user also made improvements to coding conventions and addressed concerns within the JavaScript files, as well as the overall structuring of the plugin files.
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DevinVinson/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate
Jul 2011 - Feb 2015
[WordPress] A foundation for WordPress Plugin Development that aims to provide a clear and consistent guide for building your plugins.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:360 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on a WordPress plugin boilerplate, modifying the PHP files. Their contributions involved adjusting code comments, improving JavaScript sources, and adding references to filters and actions. The user also removed constants and updated JavaScript and CSS to align with WordPress coding conventions. The user also refactored the code for better readability, adding a class property with access modifiers.
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