Craig Pearson
Lead Engineer at Naturecan
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCraig Pearson is a Lead Engineer and seasoned WordPress specialist with over a decade of experience delivering complex multisite and WooCommerce platforms for enterprise and eCommerce businesses. He combines hands-on PHP and LEMP expertise with cloud and infrastructure skills—migrating multisite setups to Azure, configuring fault-tolerant architectures, and tuning ElasticPress/Elasticsearch for performance. Comfortable across the stack, he automates deployments and developer workflows with Ansible, WP-CLI, bash and CI practices while driving PCI DSS and GDPR compliance. Craig has led teams and architectural decisions, translating business goals into scalable microservice-friendly solutions and improving reliability during peak demand. Based in Manchester, he pairs agency-level front-end craft (Sage/ACF, performance tooling) with ops-first thinking, and early in his career even built digital admissions workflows and membership platforms for niche audiences. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and adept at turning legacy WordPress estates into maintainable, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma L3 for ICT Practitioners, Advanced Diploma L3 for ICT Practitioners at Burnley CollegeWitton Park High School
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Github Skills (83)
laravel-blade10
wordpress10
laravel10
trellis10
ansible10
lemp10
wp-cli10
tailwindcss10
sage10
php10
acorn10
nginx10
lima-vm10
seo9
opengraph9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
craigpearson/bem-walker-nav-menu
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
BEM naming for WordPress navigation menus.
Contributions:5 releases, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years
wordpress
craigpearson/wp-plugin-mold
Oct 2023 - May 2024
Bootstrap a WordPress plugin via composer, with goodies such as asset minification, PSR-4 Autoloading via Jetpacks autoloading feature, and a choice of linting tools
Contributions:5 releases, 18 PRs, 36 pushes in 7 months
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