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Shannon Smith

Principal Data Scientist at Automattic

@cafenoirdesign Montreal, Quebec, Canada joined Sep 2009

github.com/cafenoirdesign Slack: @cafenoirdesign
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    Bio

    Principal Data Scientist at Automattic. Experimentation, AI product analytics, and data infrastructure. Co-editor of data.blog. Background in behavioural neuroscience and science journalism. Former WordCamp Montreal organizer and Montreal WordPress community organizer.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I had just finished journalism school, but print was dead, so underemployed with plenty of time on my hands, I built my own server using an old laptop. Then I set it up as a private collaborative blogging and photo sharing system for my friends and family. This was pre-MAMP, so I just built up each level starting with Apache, and ending with WordPress. This was before Flickr, and Facebook, but what I built was an all-in-one system to communicate and share info. I chose WordPress because, at the time, it was the only system that could integrate with all the pieces I wanted to use (photo gallery, forum, wiki, etc.). Also that Kubrick theme was pretty hot!

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    Core Contributor '20
    CONTENT
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    Photo Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Organizer '15 WordCamp Speaker '14
    POLYGLOTS
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    Translation Contributor '15

    Current Job

    Principal Data Scientist
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 3 releases
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 5.4

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2024
    May 06 Mon · 13:16
    Polyglots high
    Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    May 04 Sat · 22:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [58098] on WordPress SVN:
    Networks and Sites: Add a clearer warning message before deleting a site from a network.
    November 2023
    Nov 25 Sat · 14:13
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    Nov 22 Wed · 17:42
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57131] on WordPress SVN:
    Text Changes: Update mentions of “web site” to “website” for consistency.
    Nov 16 Thu · 13:33
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 10 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    November 2019
    Nov 03 Sun · 22:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [46643] on WordPress SVN:
    Coding Standards: Clean up the tests around `test_that_you_can_login_with_an_email_that_has_apostrophe`.
    Nov 03 Sun · 20:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [46640] on WordPress SVN:
    Login and Registration: Allow email logins to be more flexible.
    October 2019
    Oct 01 Tue · 15:19
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2019
    May 2018
    May 09 Wed · 02:42
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Calgary 2018
    July 2017
    Jul 04 Tue · 02:43
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Montréal 2017