Bryan Elliott
Senior JavaScript Engineer at Automattic
Fort Myers, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Elliott is a Senior JavaScript Engineer at Automattic with over 14 years of experience, specializing in front-end engineering while leaning full‑stack. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress.com’s wp-calypso and Jetpack, where he’s implemented licensing, checkout and site-backup flows and shipped polished React UI changes. His background includes architecting WebAssembly-powered AR web apps and a reusable JavaScript face-tracking library, demonstrating deep practical experience with machine-learning in the browser. He’s also built single-handed, production-grade internal systems — from real-time phone-call analytics to graduate follow-up tracking — showing an ability to own end-to-end product delivery. Based in Punta Gorda, Florida, Bryan combines product-focused engineering with a knack for turning complex backend integrations into smooth user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems, Computer Information Systems at DeVry Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (36)
javascript10
wordpress10
user-interface10
userinterface10
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php10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
rest-api10
react10
back-end-development9
typescript39
analytics9
regex9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:614 reviews, 175 commits, 383 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `wp-calypso` repository, focusing on the "Jetpack Offer Reset" project. Their work involved the modification of React components within the plans-v2 directory, including updating the display of prices, adding a site selection interface, and creating a customized "license" flow with associated styling. They also addressed various UI issues, such as alignment and layout problems within product cards and related components, and updating the "Jetpack Social" and "Jetpack Boost" product interfaces.
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Automattic/jetpack
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:343 reviews, 19 commits, 128 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bryan focused on implementing and enhancing features within the Jetpack plugin, with a specific emphasis on user licensing, checkout flows, and site backups. They added functionality to handle purchase tokens, developed new REST API endpoints for licensing and licensing-related notices, and integrated analytics tracking. Additionally, they made code modifications to display helpful prompts related to the backups plugin and also added more clarity regarding the realtime backups. The user's contributions span both frontend and backend code, showing a strong understanding of the WordPress ecosystem and related technologies.
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