Tom Rhodes
Software Engineering Team Lead at Automattic
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Rhodes is a Software Engineering Team Lead at Automattic with over a decade of hands-on experience in WordPress development, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. He progressed from running his own WordPress theme business to senior engineering roles at Codeable and now leads special projects focused on the WordPress ecosystem. Tom blends product-minded engineering with team leadership, shipping polished front-end experiences and scalable PHP back-ends. Based in England, he pairs a Communication and Media Studies background with practical technical depth, which helps him translate design and content needs into robust implementations. Known for sustained involvement in the WordPress community, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and cross-disciplinary collaboration to open-source and commercial initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies at York St. John University
Github Skills (62)
woocommerce10
jetpack10
shopping-cart10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
marketing10
plugin10
security10
branches10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
commerce10
js10
traffic10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/tumblr-theme-garden
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 20 reviews, 52 PRs in 3 months
a8cteam51/query-loop-load-more
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Adds a "load more" option to the query loop pagination block in Gutenberg.
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 1 year 11 months
team51-plugin
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