Matthew Gross
Solutions Architect at One More Cloud
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Gross is a solutions architect and technical analyst with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable PHP and WordPress solutions. He harmonizes engineering depth with business development leadership, translating complex requirements into architectures that drive data-driven decisions and empathetic problem solving. What sets him apart is that he can actually engineer the solution end-to-end, blending back-end development with SEO, analytics, and marketing know-how. An active open-source contributor, his work on ElasticPress for WordPress focuses on bulk indexing, batch processing to Elasticsearch, and search relevancy fixes, including date decay considerations and admin-notice tooling. Currently a Solutions Architect at One More Cloud, his career spans leadership roles at WP Engine, WEBDOGS, Pyxl, and 10up, with a foundation as a contract PHP developer and product consultant. He holds a BA from the University of Kentucky and is based in Lexington, Kentucky, bringing a practical, cross-functional product mindset to teams.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at University of Kentucky
English, German
Github Skills (19)
elasticsearch710
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch810
wordpress10
elasticsearchapi10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch510
elasticsearch610
elasticsearch210
api-doc9
searching9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
10up/ElasticPress
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the ElasticPress plugin for WordPress, focusing on bulk indexing functionality and improving search relevancy. They implemented initial bulk indexing, including methods for queuing and processing posts in batches to Elasticsearch. Further work included merging changes, fixing variable references, and adjusting the search to fix date decay relevancy issues to maintain the relevance scores. Additionally, the user added a filter for admin notices, offering more granular control.
queryintranetquery-enginewp-querywordpress-api
mattonomics/wp-rocket
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Performance optimization plugin for WordPress
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
performance-optimizationwordpressoptimizationperformanceoptimizer
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