About John Blackbourn
I'm a web developer, a leader of projects and teams, and a public speaker. I've led large scale platform redevelopment projects for organisations such as Siemens, News UK, Capgemini, Time Inc, RS Components, Oxford University, and the Scottish Government.
I have worked in the web software industry for over eighteen years, specialising in building for, integrating with, and migrating clients onto WordPress as an enterprise scale publishing platform.
I'm a core committer to the WordPress open source project since 2010, I'm the WordPress Security Team lead, and I maintain many popular plugins, tools, and resources for WordPress developers that are used throughout the ecosystem.
Web accessibility, security, and performance are all important to me.
I work as the Director of WordPress Security at Human Made, one of the world's leading WordPress specialist development agencies. My time is split between contributing to the security of the WordPress project and security awareness within Human Made. Prior to this my role was Principal Web Engineer; I led large scale web publishing platform redevelopment projects for enterprise organisations, ran developer training and business discovery workshops for clients, and mentored junior and mid level developers. I have previously worked at WordPress VIP, Code For The People, and as a freelance software engineer.
See my disclosures page for a little more info.
I'm a supporter of salary transparency. In my role as Director of WordPress Security at Human Made I am paid £48,000 (GBP) per year in a half time role.
I live in Norwich, UK; and Torino, Italy.
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Contact
You are welcome to email me at john at this domain, but do not use this for support questions about my plugins as I will not answer.
- For my free plugins, please use the appropriate plugin forum. Support is best given in the open so others can learn from it too.
- For my paid plugins, details of your support options can be found in your email receipt.