I’m a senior frontend engineer with over a decade of experience building for the web. Currently based in Philadelphia and looking for my next remote opportunity.
My journey
I started as a full-stack developer working with PHP and MySQL before diving deep into WordPress plugins and themes at various agencies. I found myself gravitating toward the frontend, evolving from jQuery and Backbone.js to React and TypeScript as the ecosystem matured.
I still love vanilla CSS (okay, with some PostCSS helpers). What tends to surprise people is that I also enjoy writing CLI scripts and database migration scripts—there’s something satisfying about automating the tedious stuff and making complex data transformations elegant.
WordPress community
I’ve been deeply involved in the WordPress community for years, speaking at conferences and helping organize events. I’ve also been responsible for a small-but-key feature for each release, the About page. Over the last few releases, this has also included the release pages.
In Sept 2020, I was granted WordPress core commit access—a recognition of my contributions to the platform that powers over 40% of the web.
From 2022-2025, I was the technical lead for the WordPress.org redesign. Using blocks and block themes, I created the framework for the styles and some initial components, then worked with a small team of developers to build out almost 20 sites (some in 200+ languages).
React & JavaScript
Before full-time WordPress work, I worked on WooCommerce, Jetpack, and WordPress.com. While on those teams, I worked on creating React dashboards and component systems; plus APIs and state management. I improved the flow for installing multiple Jetpack products, and started the development for the eventual new WooCommerce admin UI.
And more
In the past I’ve been a theme developer, though I haven’t kept up with the themes I’ve published. I still tinker with theme development (I helped out with Twenty Twenty-One). Some of my theme works-in-progress can be found at my github, but I make no promises about how complete they are.
I’m passionate about accessibility, disability advocacy, and neurodiversity. While at Automattic, I co-started an employee resource group for neurodivergent employees.