Ricky Lee Whittemore

Ricky Lee at the Eiffel Tower

Enterprise WordPress Architect & Engineering Team Lead

I'm a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building enterprise solutions. Currently leading engineering teams and architecting scalable WordPress applications.

Experience

Staff Engineer

10up — 2014-Present

Leading large full-stack development teams and architecting enterprise solutions utilizing WordPress and latest web technologies.

WordPress Developer

Southern Web — 2009-2014

Built custom WordPress themes and plugins for clients across various industries.

Skills & Expertise

Development

  • Enterprise WordPress Development
  • Full-Stack Development
  • LLM and ChatGPT Integrations
  • Gutenberg Block Development
  • PHP / JavaScript / TypeScript
  • React / Next.js / Astro
  • REST API Development

Leadership

  • Team Management
  • Technical Architecture
  • Code Review & Mentoring
  • Project Planning

Open Source

I'm an active contributor to WordPress core and maintain several open source projects. You can find my work on GitHub.

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