Chris Wiegman
Hello, I’m Chris Wiegman. I am a US-based engineering manager who has spent the bulk of my software career working on WordPress, specifically on the development experience of WordPress developers.
While I’ve been developing software professionally for 10 years, tech was not my first career. I turned to software and tech after careers that found me making money in music, education and even as an airline captain and flight instructor. In the process I’ve completed a Bachelor’s degree in aviation management as well as a Master’s degree in computer science, both from Southern Illinois University, and I continue to apply what I’ve learned both in school and through over 20 years of professional experience to help WordPress developers build the best sites they can.
Today I work for WP Engine where I help build teams using a range of technologies including PHP, JavaScript and GoLang to build solutions ranging from WordPress plugins to microservices in support of our users which include some of the biggest WordPress sites in production.
A few of the more popular projects I’ve been involved with over the last decade include:
- Kana CLI
- WP Engine’s Faust.js headless WordPress framework
- WP Engine’s Atlas Content Modeler – Project cancelled
- iThemes Security (Better WP Security) – Sold to iThemes
- Better Google Tasks – Project archived
- Primary Vagrant – Project archived
- WP Engine’s DevKit – Project cancelled
What I’m working on today
- Leading the engineering efforts for the team building Faust.js at WP Engine
- Reading as much as I can as I don’t really watch TV
- Learning how to record more video for this site
- Learning German with hopes of getting to actually use it one day
- Searching for a place that we can call home that isn’t anywhere near Florida and preparing our house for sale
- Searching for a community that I can be a part of and give back to
Last updated 9 November, 2022
More about me
- My speaking page with a history of conference and other talks
- Check out the tools I uses daily on my “uses” page
- My Resume
- All my public code
- Follow me on Mastodon or Pixelfed