Sean McHenry
WordPress Developer
Highlights & Interests
- 8+ years of production-level agency experience designing, developing, and scaling custom WordPress architectures.
- Deep domain expertise across the full site lifecycle—from semantic theme compilation (SCSS/Vite) to managed server deployment (WP Engine/Nexcess).
- Experienced with WordPress optimization, technical troubleshooting (Query Monitor), and security hardening.
- Outside of development, you can find me hiking, camping, or fishing around New England, collecting records and spending time with my wife and two daughters.
Brown & Co. Design, Inc.
Web Developer / Software Generalist
April 2018 – Present
- Architect and maintain high-performance WordPress and WooCommerce installations, utilizing custom _s (Underscores) foundations, advanced ACF Pro configurations, and tailored block editor builds.
- Write secure, semantic PHP and custom CSS/SCSS architecture, standardizing local compilation workflows via NPM, task runners (Gulp/Grunt), and modern compilers like Vite.
- Manage production deployment pipelines, Git version control, complex database cleanups, and advanced DNS routing across managed hosting layers like WP Engine and Nexcess.
- Isolate and resolve platform errors using Query Monitor and server log diagnostics while scaling defense-in-depth security configs, automated backups, and resilient transactional email routing.
Technical Skills & Competencies
WordPress Core & Dev
- Modern Block & Full Site Editing (FSE) themes
- Classic Theme Architecture & structural PHP
- Early adopter & developer using _s (Underscores)
- Advanced Custom Fields (ACF Pro) mapping
E-Commerce & Plugins
- WooCommerce platform hardening & optimization
- Events Calendar Pro complex configurations
- Custom API integrations & endpoint hookups
- Advanced functional plugin setup & auditing
CSS & Frontend Tooling
- Modular styling utilizing modern CSS & SCSS
- Utility-first setups (Tailwind, Basscss, Tachyons)
- Component layout generation via Bootstrap
- Responsive layouts matching high-fidelity mockups
Build Tools & Workflows
- NPM package asset automation pipelines
- Legacy automation tasks using Gulp & Grunt
- Modern compilers including Vite & Laravel Mix
- Version control management utilizing Git / GitHub
DevOps & Environments
- Managed WP ecosystems (WP Engine, Nexcess, etc.)
- Advanced DNS configuration & Cloudflare layers
- WP-CLI scripting & Unix/macOS Terminal controls
- Email integrations via WP Mail SMTP & FluentSMTP
Performance & Security
- Debugging via Query Monitor & Debug Bar
- Caching design (W3 Total Cache) & Image optimization
- Hardening strategies using Wordfence & Sucuri
- Automated redundancy via local/remote site backups