Alec Geatches
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Erie, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Geatches is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building web and mobile software, currently focused on WordPress plugin development at Automattic. He brings a background spanning freelance product work, mobile app development, and platform-scale engineering from time at Microsoft where he implemented OAuth2 server-side auth and cross-platform automation. Alec combines deep WordPress expertise with practical full-stack skills—server-side JavaScript, web tooling stabilization, and analytics/web service integrations—so he can both ship plugins and diagnose platform issues. Based in Erie, Colorado, he pairs a B.S. in Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines with hands-on consulting experience, making him comfortable across codebases large and small. Colleagues appreciate that he moves between high-level architecture and low-level tooling improvements, a trait honed by restoring legacy apps and improving developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
English
Github Skills (73)
firmware10
gutenberg10
vimeo10
wordpress10
youtube10
html5-video10
plyr10
usb10
vimeo-player10
vip10
wordpress-plugin10
javascript9
bdd9
cli9
html9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/vip-block-data-api
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
WordPress plugin that provides an API to retrieve Gutenberg content as structured JSON.
Contributions:14 releases, 78 reviews, 67 PRs in 3 years 4 months
wordpress-pluginwordpresswpvip-pluginvip
Automattic/vip-design-system-bridge
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 49 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
vip
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