Josh Wardle is a Welsh software engineer who developed the viral web-based word game Wordle.
[8][9] After completing graduate school, Wardle moved to Oakland, California, and began working as an artist at Reddit in 2011.
As a community engineering product manager, he created popular collaborative experimental projects such as The Button in 2015 and Place in 2017.
[12] First, Wardle shared the game with his family members before posting it on his website Powerlanguage.co.uk and making it widely available in October 2021.
[14] In January 2022, The New York Times Company announced that it had acquired Wordle "for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.