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annezazu

Architecture & Open Source Director at Automattic

@annezazu Seattle, Washington, USA joined Apr 2014

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    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

    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.
    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.

    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
    9contributions
    high3
    medium6
    score15
    Last 90 days
    32contributions
    high10
    medium22
    score52
    Last 12 months
    61contributions
    high17
    medium44
    score95

    Specializations

    evenly split across 2 teams · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 28 Thu · 14:33
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    For many years, jobs.wordpress.net has been a resource for folks applying for jobs and looking…
    May 28 Thu · 00:02
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Media Editor Modal: Call for Testing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    It is a somewhat arbitrary stack. I’m not sure there’s an objective approach here. I…
    May 27 Wed · 21:25
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Media Editor Modal: Call for Testing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Thanks so much for this great call for testing! I gave this a go and…
    May 25 Mon · 18:20
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Leadership transition for the Core AI team, on the site WordPress AI:
    Thanks for all the effort and care here.
    May 08 Fri · 17:13
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration will not ship in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Hey there. You can read a few different places where this has been requested, starting…
    May 08 Fri · 05:10
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration will not ship in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Hey Luke. As it stands right now, you can test the feature using the Gutenberg…
    May 08 Fri · 01:03
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Results: Real Time Collaboration performance testing analysis, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Following the decision to remove real-time collaboration from WordPress 7.0, this post summarizes what the…
    May 08 Fri · 01:03
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Results: Real Time Collaboration performance testing analysis, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    +make.wordpress.org/hosting/
    May 08 Fri · 00:50
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Real-time collaboration will not ship in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Today, @matt made the decision to remove real-time collaboration from WordPress 7.0 and shared that…
    April 2026
    Apr 27 Mon · 15:56
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Redirect request for wp-cli.org, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Marking this as something to do once more in light of the above comment. Thank…

    Contributor

    Total photo contributions: 113

    View all photos contributed by annezazu to the WordPress Photo Directory →

    Completed Courses

    Total completed courses: 6