Adam Silverstein
Farm Manager Owner at Google
Hotchkiss, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Silverstein is a seasoned web engineer and lifelong programmer with 12+ years in developer relations and open source, currently working as a Developer Relations Engineer at Google while running a decades-old farm in Hotchkiss, Colorado. A WordPress core committer and former 10up lead, he brings deep front-end expertise—especially in JavaScript—and practical DevOps automation experience, having improved CI/CD for Google's Site Kit and contributed UI features to the Gutenberg block editor. He runs Earthbound building and hosting WordPress sites, blending hands-on product work with community-facing advocacy. Comfortable moving between shell scripts, build pipelines, and interactive UI components, he pairs rural-rooted stewardship with a long history of shipping reliable web tooling.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Experimental SchoolUniversity of California Santa CruzBA, BA at University of ChicagoPaidea
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Github Skills (19)
github-ci10
javascript10
scripting10
wordpress10
release-management10
automation10
script10
front-end-development10
ci-cd-pipeline10
sh10
automations10
shell10
build-management10
githubaction-workflow10
react10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/site-kit-wp
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 427 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam's contributions primarily involved setting up and modifying the CI/CD pipeline for the repository. This included adding actions to build pull requests, manage development processes, and clean up closed pull requests. They implemented scripts to publish build files to the wiki and remove them, demonstrating automation expertise with shell scripting. These changes enhanced the project's maintainability and release processes.
everythingwordpress-apiwordpressstopoffer
WordPress/gutenberg
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 33 commits, 111 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Gutenberg block editor, specifically enhancing the user interface and functionality. They focused on implementing features such as a post author selector using the ComboboxControl and addressing media linking issues. Additionally, the user worked on improving the page parent selector by integrating it with ComboboxControl and ensuring proper functionality. These contributions involved modifying existing components and adding new interactive elements within the WordPress block editor.
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