Beau Lebens Email & Phone Number

Golden, CO, US

San Francisco, CA, California, US

Leading the engineering teams responsible for the WooCommerce product space (over 200 engineers). Spanning open source community contributions/releases/management, marketplace, and dozens of products existing within the marketplace plus a variety of hosted services. Responsible for implementing and optimizing process, growing and developing engineering.

New York City, New York, US

Working with companies in the Techstars portfolio to help them build and scale remote engineering teams/products.

San Francisco, US

Directly managing web engineering teams ranging in size from 4 to 13.

San Francisco, US

Working on web-scale software related primarily to WordPress. Working in PHP and JS.

San Francisco, California, US

Expanded role leading up to 50 developers (PHP, JS) and designers, plus a small group dedicated to bizdev. Responsible for all product and business decisions around a major product line (Jetpack).

Creating an online scrapbooking/community site targeted at parents and family. Based entirely on WordPressMU and bbPress (integrated and massively customized through plugins/additional functionality). Storage hosted on Amazon S3, with extensive use of AJAX in the UI via jQuery and Prototype/Scriptaculous. Careful use of PHP/MySQL, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

My private-consulting business name used for providing boutique Internet development services. Generally, I focus around search marketing and social software/web 2.0/community-based systems.http://www.dentedreality.com.au/

Writing custom WordPress plugins, managing a large WP installation and keeping one of the biggest blogs on the Internet online. I debugged/customized existing plugins, tuned and improved the performance of the site and servers and was generally responsible for debugging (or writing from scratch) and making sure that new features were added in a timely.

A service aimed at providing a set of tools to help people (and specifically, businesses) customize and manipulate the plethora of feed-based information sources we now have access to.http://www.feedville.com/

Managed all technical operations of a multi-million dollar per year company. Lead up to three other developers and created and/or worked on all back-end systems handling millions of clicks worth of traffic per month. Built systems allowing the company to track and sell traffic being delivered to clients. Built back-end systems using PHP/MySQL/Bash.

Malaga, Western Australia, AU

Adultshop.com is the leading adult novelty and toy company in Australia, who also operate a number of "adult entertainment" websites. I was involved in helping scale this presence out to over 20 web servers in a load-balanced environment, handling millions of requests per day. This incredibly competitive industry taught me the value of understanding.

Bentley, Western Australia, AU

I was in a specialist unit providing education to teachers from around the world, helping them to use technology effectively in their classrooms and to teach their students how to make use of technology in their lives. I handled all aspects of the online and CD-ROM based delivery of our course material and interactions.

One of the first true e-commerce start-ups in Perth, Western Australia, InsuranceMyWay was aimed at providing a simple way to buy insurance online for everyone. I started as a consultant and moved on to manage the public face of the company's website as well as the intranet and other web-based presences.