Hire Kevin Champlin · Senior Full-Stack Engineer · WordPress & Applied AI · Chicago metro
20+ years architecting and shipping production web platforms for Fortune 100/500, regulated-industry, and high-growth clients. Deep WordPress / WooCommerce / PHP roots, plus a self-funded applied-AI portfolio through Champlin Enterprises (Vantage, Diamond, AI Tax, AI Showcase, OSS Claude skills).
Most recent engagement: WordPress modernization contract at Levi Strauss & Co. via Xebia, February – May 31, 2026 — template modernization, legacy-code cleanup, ACF-driven editorial agility, plus technical SEO and llms.txt-class LLM discoverability. Capacity for the next thing opens June 1. Public production receipts below.
End-to-end ownership: architect, build, ship, observe. PHP / TypeScript / JavaScript / Python / Swift / Kotlin in production. 20+ years of LAMP / WordPress / modern web. Remote-first, anywhere in the US.
Enterprise WordPress: custom themes & plugins, Multisite, WooCommerce, ACF, Gutenberg, headless WordPress, REST APIs, performance work, legacy modernization. F500 / agency / WP Engine / Pantheon / Automattic Special Projects-class teams.
Small senior team owning a meaningful surface. Hands-on tech leadership, not pure people management. Full-stack / WordPress / applied-AI surfaces all welcome.
Full-stack builds, WordPress modernization, WooCommerce, applied-AI integrations through Champlin Enterprises, LLC. F100/500 and mid-market; T&M or fixed-fee.
Living dataset of AI-driven layoffs. 673,514+ people impacted across 65 events. Daily cron, structured extraction, Dataset JSON-LD. Built end-to-end in an afternoon.
Educational, interactive walkthrough of production AI work. Live cost telemetry, kill switch, glossary spine. Every API call gated.
MLB prediction engine. Predictions auto-graded hourly; auto-tunes overnight from yesterday's accuracy. Public OpenAPI + SDKs.
Self-tuning equity market analysis. Momentum + mean-reversion + sentiment with adaptive weights. Claude commentary on every call.
Six MIT-licensed Claude Code skills I use every day. PRs welcome. Bridges the gap between cute demos and daily-driver workflows.
The Operator's Edge, Ship It, and a third title on AI-driven small-business ops. I've shipped what I write about.
I work where the work is interesting and the team ships. Quiet, senior, end-to-end. No junior handoffs, no slide decks, no theater. Reach out, and I'll respond inside 24 hours.
