Personal Details
Nick Green
Web Developer
4529 NE Alberta St.
Portland, OR 97218
nick@nickgreen.info
(503) 804-5010
Work Goals
Collaborate with motivated, creative teams – whether freelance or integrated.
Create high-quality, sustainable code and continuously expand development skills.
Tackle the oncoming sea change for knowledge workers with a sense of curiosity and excitement, not fear.
Core Skills
- Leadership + project management: 10+ years managing technical teams and client projects. Extensive use and teaching of Crew Resource Management in aviation and web teams alike.
- Client communication: Frequent client contact in both support and development roles. Professional, proactive communicator across email, video calls, and project tools.
- Technical acumen: The primary skill of a good developer is to learn how to learn. Each new task, whether tackling a new language or an unforseen problem, is an opportunity to learn something new.
- WooCommerce support & development: Years of experience working with WooCommerce — from plugin development and troubleshooting to team and client support. Deep familiarity with subscriptions, extensions, and scaling stores.
- WordPress development (PHP, Node.js, SASS): 10+ years of custom theme and plugin development for clients and internal teams. Proficient with block and block theme development.
Related Skills
- Version control (Git, SVN): Daily use of Gitflow for source control, branching, code review, and deployment. Experience with SVN, Phabricator, DeployHQ, etc.
- Hosting management: Managed hundreds of self-hosted sites across managed and shared hosting on multiple platforms. Handled email configs, DNS, migrations, and Plesk/WHM admin.
- Site/data migrations: Migrated sites in various capacities, including online publications with 10k+ articles, and eCommerce shops between payment gateways with 14k+ customers.
- Build tools (NPM, Composer, etc.): Experience using build tools to streamline development workflows and build modern, maintainable front ends.
Core Experience
Web Consulting
Portland Workshop LLC
April 2025 – Present · Portland, Oregon (Remote)
- PORTLAND WORKSHOP LLC is my independently operated web services company. Work with mid-sized businesses providing WordPress / WooCommerce development and eCommerce-focused technical support and troubleshooting. Also provide UX streamlining, site builds, and feature-set project management.
Software Engineer Team Lead – Special Projects/ Concierge
Automattic
June 2020 – April 2025 · Remote
- Built and maintained high-traffic WordPress sites for top-tier partners. Balanced custom development with performance, scale, and support considerations.
- Bridged gap between client teams and product teams.
- Built bespoke internal tools and client features which interfaced with LLMs, secured sensitive customer data, and managed crucial updates across hundreds of VIP websites.
Support Engineer Team Lead
Automattic
May 2019 – June 2020 · Remote
- Led a distributed team of “Happiness Engineers” supporting a wide portfolio of WooCommerce extensions. Helped transition the incoming team and products after Prospress was acquired by Automattic.
Support Engineer Team Lead
Prospress
December 2016 – May 2019 · Remote
- Team lead and developer support engineer for a successful WooCommerce startup. Managed support ops and handled developer-level issue resolution for WooCommerce Subscriptions.
Web Developer & Lead Developer
IronGate Creative
December 2013 – December 2016 · Hagerstown, Indiana
- Full cycle web development—from discovery to launch—for clients of this full-service marketing firm. Built client-friendly WordPress experiences using PHP, HTML, CSS, and JS.
Web Developer
Collegenet, Inc.
November 2011 – December 2013 · Portland, Oregon
- Maintained graduate school application platforms. Work included custom forms, user experience enhancements, and integration with backend logic engine based on Perl.
Web Designer/Developer
Portland Workshop, LLC
January 2010 – November 2011 · Portland, Oregon
- Freelance developer and designer for small business clients. Responsible for client intake, design, coding, and deployment.
Other Experience
Pilot Instructor – Hillsboro Aviation, Inc.
July 2008 – November 2011 · Hillsboro, OR
- Turboprop PIC 135 Pilot and instructor for international cadets. Taught western-style crew resource management (CRM) and served as check instructor.
Pilot – Life Flight Network / Aero Air
July 2005 – July 2008 · Hillsboro, OR
- Air ambulance SIC in Turbo Commander 690A aircraft.
Certificated Flight Instructor – Hillsboro Aviation, Inc.
August 2001 – July 2005 · Hillsboro, OR
- CFI, Dispatcher, and Associate School Director.
Education
Earlham College
B.A. in Fine Art, German Language · 1996 – 2000 · Richmond, IN
Hillsboro Aviation, Inc.
Private, Instrument, Commercial, ATP Certificates · 2001 – 2002 · Hillsboro, OR