Zach Tirrell
General Manager at Smash Balloon LLC
Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Tirrell is a seasoned software and product leader with 14+ years building and scaling web platforms, currently serving as General Manager at Smash Balloon and previously as SVP & GM of StellarWP at Liquid Web. He combines deep hands-on expertise in PHP/JavaScript, WordPress ecosystems, and identity management with proven P&L and M&A experience, having unified and grown a portfolio of leading WordPress brands. Zach led The Events Calendar from early-stage product to 600k+ installs and drove a 460% ARR increase through engineering modernization, internationalization, and test-driven practices. He balances technical credibility—contributing backend fixes and features to prominent open-source projects like The Events Calendar—with operational rigor in platform consolidation, telemetry, and cross-functional leadership of global teams. Based in Plymouth, NH, he also brings civic leadership as chair of his town’s Select Board, reflecting a pragmatic, community-minded approach to problem solving. Colleagues know him for translating complex technical debt into measurable business outcomes while still shipping incremental code.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Computer Science, BS Applied Computer Science at Plymouth State University
Github Skills (4)
php10
wordpress10
translation9
icalendar8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Apr 2015 - Nov 2021
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 459 commits, 298 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Zach's commits primarily involve modifications to PHP files within the "the-events-calendar" repository. They are focused on bug fixes, such as fixing feed URLs for news dashboard widgets, and implementing new features, like pulling translations from GlotPress. Other changes include updating language files and addressing code-related issues, such as double quotes. The user is also involved in code refactoring to preserve existing functionality.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
zbtirrell/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 pushes in 8 years 9 months
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