Googlier.com | annezazu (@annezazu) – WordPress user profile

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

4 badges

C Credits Graduate '26 Support Contributor '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

69contributions

high26

medium43

score121

Last 90 days

128contributions

high39

medium89

score206

Last 12 months

375contributions

high78

medium297

score531

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 16 releases

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 21 Fri · 19:56

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Beat me to it! It’s temporary. With WP 7.1, I wasn’t able to clean it…

Aug 21 Fri · 19:56

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Thank you so much!

Aug 21 Fri · 19:28

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Introducing the Accessibility Lab plugin! The plugin aims to offer a combination of Core related…

Aug 21 Fri · 19:28

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
+make.wordpress.org/core/

Aug 21 Fri · 01:31

Core high

Pull request #81605 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Global Styles: Allow editing duotone palettes

Aug 20 Thu · 21:55

Community med

Created issue #1920 in the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
GatherPress Migration: Fix spacing of a news item in a group

Aug 20 Thu · 00:32

Meta high

Received props from @Benjamin_Zekavica in Slack:
Props to @annezazu, @krupajnanda, @wildworks, @joedolson, @adrianduffell, @sajjad67, @SergeyBiryukov, @huzaifaalmesbah, @nikunj8866 for their amazing work…

Aug 19 Wed · 23:33

Meta high

Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou”, on the site WordPress News:
WordPress 7.1, “Mary Lou,” is here—celebrating the pioneering jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou…

Aug 19 Wed · 06:04

Documentation med

Closed issue #2493 on the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
[HelpHub]: [Ex][7.1] Set interactive states for button blocks (update button block)

Aug 19 Wed · 05:54

Documentation med

Closed issue #2479 on the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
[HelpHub][7.1] Update Notes documentation for multiple threads, inline notes, and @mentions