Work

Seventeen years of WordPress, from publisher themes to running the whole thing inside a browser tab. Currently a senior engineer on WordPress Playground: PHP in WebAssembly, SQLite instead of MySQL, blueprints for reproducible sites & more.

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Experience

Jul 2021 →

5 yrs 3 mos · Remote
Senior Software Engineer

Automattic
2026
- WordPress Playground: reliability fixes and new features across the project.
- Playground on WordPress.com: refining the onboarding shipped last year.
- SQLite database driver: reviewing pull requests, plus a few fixes of my own.
2025
- WordPress Playground: WordPress running entirely in the browser, on WebAssembly.
- Playground on WordPress.com: onboarding that spins up a real WordPress site in the browser, before signup.
- Collaborative editing in Gutenberg: real-time co-editing in the block editor, powered by PHP alone.
- WordPress Studio: features and fixes in Automattic's agentic local development app.
2024
- Data Liberation: a browser extension to select parts of any website and preview them as WordPress content, live, in the browser.
2021–23
- Matrix at Automattic: moving Automattic's and WordPress.org's Slack to Matrix. Built a Slack-to-Matrix migrator, Neurobot & Maubot plugins for workflow parity, Automattrix to host homeservers, Chatrix to embed a Matrix client in WordPress, and an OpenID Connect Server plugin. Upstream contributions to Synapse, Hydrogen and synadm.
Nov 2019 –
Jul 2021

1 yr 8 mos · Remote
Open Source Engineer

Independent, self-funded
- AirTrust OS: an immutable OS for ARM single-board computers, built to run sensitive operations fully air-gapped.
- Air-Gapped Crypto Vault: keeps crypto keys on a machine that never touches a network, with a trustless architecture.
Feb 2012 –
Oct 2019

7 yrs 8 mos · Remote
CTO

Anatta (previously Anatta Design)
- Led the engineering team delivering client projects, and set up the internal processes that kept delivery smooth.
- More WordPress and Shopify builds and data migrations than I can count, solving problems as they came up.
- Built AwesomeCheckout and MyAbandonedCart for Magento stores: checkout flows designed around Baymard's checkout usability research to lift conversions, an approach the whole industry later adopted.
Jul 2009 –
Jan 2012

2 yrs 6 mos · Remote

WordPress and bbPress Developer

Independent

WordPress and bbPress themes and plugins for several clients.