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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

    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
    23contributions
    high2
    medium21
    score27
    Last 90 days
    87contributions
    high17
    medium70
    score121
    Last 12 months
    284contributions
    high43
    medium241
    score370

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 16 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5

    Time commitment

    20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 05 Fri · 22:18
    Core med
    Created issue #78989 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Multi-entity save flow appearing incorrectly
    Jun 05 Fri · 00:10
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #603 on the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
    Feature request: add "Job" section to WordPress.org profiles
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:42
    GitHub med
    Created issue #672 in the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
    Career functionality v2 scope
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:33
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    Thanks so much for responding! For the job listing in jobs.wordpress.net from a UX standpoint,…
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:28
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    Ukrainian language isn’t supported for the description of the entries. Can you explain what's going…
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:25
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    UX Feedback for the jobs tab. The color of the buttons “Save current job” and…
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:24
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    Great point. Added to the list! Thank you for testing.
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:22
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    I see 74 pages now so I'm not sure what was going on there. I'll…
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:22
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    Updated the instructions (sorry about that). I also think we should add a search form…
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:20
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    Good catch! It's on the list.

    Contributor

    Total photo contributions: 113

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    Completed Courses

    Total completed courses: 6