Mike Little

Mike Little (born 12 May 1962) is an English web developer living in Stockport, England and co-founder of the free and open source web software WordPress along with American Matt Mullenweg.
WordPress.
WordPress is the official successor to a blogging tool developed by French programmer Michel Valdrighi named "b2/cafelog", which launched in 2001. In 2002 Valdrighi stopped developing b2, and on 24 January 2003 Matt Mullenweg, a user of "b2/cafelog", wrote on his blog that he’d be willing to create a fork of the project. Mike Little soon contacted Mullenweg by leaving a comment on Mullenweg's blog that read "If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Perhaps a post to the B2 forum, suggesting a fork would be a good starting point." – following which Little and Mullenweg began working together on the development of WordPress, releasing the first version on 27 May 2003.
In June 2013 Little was awarded the SAScon's "Outstanding Contribution to Digital" award for his part in co-founding and developing WordPress.