annezazu (@annezazu) – WordPress user profile

Bio

A minimalistic, optimistic, and athletic nomad who enjoys photography, deep conversations, and thought provoking questions. I aim to be a dot connector, accelerant, and doer across the most impactful areas of the WordPress ecosystem, alongside my work within Automattic.

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress my freshman year of college at UNC Chapel Hill while searching for a job on campus. I had been using Blogger for a private blog with friends the previous 5-6 years. When I saw an “Instructional Technologist” job pop up, I jumped to apply. That was in 2011 and I haven’t looked back since.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '20 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '21 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '22 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

Community Contributor '20 WordCamp Speaker '21

PRACTICE

3 badges

C Credits Graduate '26 Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

Current Job

Architecture & Open Source Director

Feb 2025 – Present

Automattic

Accelerant, integrator, doer, and dot connector working on the leadership team across Automattic’s 270+ person engineering organization and the broader WordPress.org open source community.

Job History

Product Manager

Mar 2022 – Feb 2025

Automattic

Led cross-functional initiatives across Automattic and the global WordPress.org open-source community to drive product development and user adoption.

Developer Relations Wrangler

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022

Automattic

First developer relations wrangler at Automattic, approached the role with a mindset of paving the way to grow the practice internally while cultivating a welcoming, interactive, and knowledge-rich environment within the WordPress.org open source community through creating resources, facilitating meaningful conversations, initiating targeted outreach efforts, and more.First developer relations wrangler at Automattic, approached the role with a mindset of paving the way to grow the practice internally while cultivating a welcoming, interactive, and knowledge-rich environment within the WordPress.org open source community through creating resources, facilitating meaningful conversations, initiating targeted outreach efforts, and more.

Key Accomplishments

WordPress 5.9 Test Co-Lead.

Ran the Full Site Editing Outreach program from May 2020 to February 2024, a pioneering new program designed to gather feedback from users, builders, and developers to improve phase 2 of WordPress.

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

19contributions

high4

medium15

score27

Last 90 days

69contributions

high10

medium59

score89

Last 12 months

299contributions

high45

medium254

score389

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 16 releases

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 12 Sun · 06:05

Core med

Submitted pull request #80146 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Preview dropdown: simplify viewport style state descriptions

Jul 10 Fri · 19:49

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Hey folks. Thanks for the great discussion and thoughtfulness here. This merge proposal was reviewed…

Jul 10 Fri · 12:03

Core high

Mentioned in [62685] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Show part of the excerpt for untitled posts in the list table Compact view.

Jul 09 Thu · 19:34

Core high

Mentioned in [62681] on WordPress SVN:
Widgets: Add "On This Day" dashboard widget.

Jul 09 Thu · 17:26

Core med

Closed pull request #74985 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Editor: Add compact notes mode for Notes sidebar

Jul 08 Wed · 00:12

Core high

Mentioned in [62661] on WordPress SVN:
Privacy: Update the international data transfer tutorial text.

Jul 03 Fri · 21:14

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.1 Release Party Schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for all the effort to pull this together!

Jul 03 Fri · 16:45

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal: Expanding WordPress Core Abilities, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Also probably important to share the AI Team’s consensus on last week’s contributor call was…

Jul 03 Fri · 03:53

Core med

Closed pull request #79719 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Global Styles: replace per-control push with a granular "Apply globally" review modal

Jul 02 Thu · 05:57

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Guidelines for Syncing Code From Gutenberg Into WordPress Develop, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks so much for all the thought and effort that went into pulling this together.