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I help hosting companies, SaaS products, apps, registrars, and more scale operations & grow revenue. Forward deployed technical solutions engineer + partner success & account manager. Working across integration, CX, product shaping, service delivery, GTM, development, and developer enablement & escalations.

WordPress Origin Story

I moved away from contributing to the development of another CMS and started testing and utilizing WordPress in 2006. Quickly, I began creating custom themes and working with local nonprofits to help forge their presence on the internet. After a decade of award-winning development, consulting, and support — I started a new chapter with Automattic in 2018.

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Current Job

Forward Deployed Solutions Engineer
May 2024 – Present
Automattic · Full-time
At Automattic, I work across multiple products as part of a systems team, with most of my time spent on WP Cloud. There, I'm part of the team building the platform, and I support our business development team—working at the intersection of technical solutions, systems administration, partner success, technical account management, service delivery, and WordPress development and integration.

- Turn business requirements and production findings into solution designs, product direction, and live features. Help build and deploy the result.
- Advise teams on practical AI operations and responsible adoption.
- Guide technical discovery from early partner conversations through architecture, onboarding, integration, launch, and production.
- Manage production systems and improve site and server performance across WordPress, PHP, MySQL, caching, APIs, logs, metrics, and infrastructure.
- Help shape and mitigate traffic across origin and edge networks through routing, caching, rate limits, and security controls.
- Perform security reviews and research.
- Support pre-sales and post-sales work through feasibility analysis, feature and pricing context, and technical account management.
- Lead cross-team incidents and escalations, then turn what we learn into tooling, documentation, training, and developer guidance.
- Help advise and deploy other Automattic products and services.


Service & Solutions Wrangler | Forward Deployed Solutions Engineer | AI Operations Consultant, Educator, and Enabler | Technical Account Manager | Developer Enabler | Escalations Manager (and Solver)

Job History

Senior Technical Lead
Oct 2022 – May 2024
Automattic · Full-time
Served as Senior Technical Lead for Pressable.com's operations.

- Bridged Pressable’s development and support teams with WP Cloud and beyond.
- Helped expand Pressable's product capabilities and offerings.
- Led technical triage and escalations involving hosting infrastructure, WordPress, Jetpack, security, and performance.
- Helped teams use WP Cloud integrations effectively and convert operational needs into platform features.
- Performed developer outreach and technical guidance for complex implementations.
- Implemented effective processes for service operations.
Lead Technical Cache Flusher, PHP & SQL Tinkerer, and Bug Whisperer
Apr 2020 – Oct 2022
Automattic · Full-time
Engineered solutions and service across Automattic: WordPress.com, Pressable.com, Jetpack.com, WooCommerce.com, and more.

Specialized in global hosting infrastructure with a bit of SaaS, Jetpack, WooCommerce, security research & response, escalations, developer outreach, and leadership mixed in.

- Built and trained internal teams focused on advanced issue resolution & solutions.
- Led learning sessions and created technical guidance for support teams.
- Performed deep investigations and resolutions related to failures spanning code, infrastructure, performance, and security.
- Worked with platform and product teams to isolate bugs, improve tooling and documentation, and reduce repeat issues.
Happiness Engineer
Nov 2018 – Apr 2020
Automattic · Full-time
Engineered happiness, solutions, and improvements across WordPress.com products and services.

Recent impact

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 6 releases
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6
  • 6.5

Contributions

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June 2026
Jun 04 Thu · 00:31
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #319 to WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
Report database server version instead of client binary version
Jun 04 Thu · 00:13
GitHub med
Created issue #318 in the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
Database Version reports the MySQL/MariaDB client, not the database server
February 2026
Feb 19 Thu · 09:42
Core high
Mentioned in [61687] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged.
September 2025
Sep 16 Tue · 17:19
Forums med
Created a topic, Excessive wp_schedule_single_event() Calls Cause Massive Cron Option Growth, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy! I work on WP Cloud and we've be monitoring s…
August 2025
Aug 19 Tue · 22:05
Forums med
Posted a reply to Error on multiple sites after update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For posterity, I wanted to note that the issue with the sites I've observed is…
July 2025
Jul 25 Fri · 22:39
Forums med
Created a topic, Conflict introduced in 5.1.16 leading to excessive memory utilization, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy! I work for a host and we've noticed a recent up…
April 2025
Apr 16 Wed · 22:21
Core high
Mentioned in [60171] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Prevent Multisite fatal error in legacy file rewrites.
Apr 16 Wed · 04:33
Core high
Mentioned in [60170] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Prevent Multisite fatal error in legacy file rewrites.
Apr 15 Tue · 18:03
Core med
Created ticket #63285 on Core Trac:
Call to undefined function is_super_admin() in /wp-includes/ms-files.php
November 2024
Nov 22 Fri · 16:53
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Hello, WordPress Community – Let’s Chat!, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Hi, Mary!