Anna McPhee
Software Engineer at Automattic
Warragul, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAnna McPhee is a Full Stack Software Engineer at Automattic with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable WordPress-focused products, including contributions to the widely used Jetpack plugin’s search and stats features. She combines JavaScript, React, PHP and REST API expertise with systems thinking influenced by permaculture, applying natural-network metaphors to API design and architecture. Her background spans product-facing engineering and senior technical support, giving her a strong user-centered perspective and a track record of accessibility and performance improvements. After eight years as a digital nomad working on projects from refugee camp databases to permaculture initiatives, she excels at pragmatic problem-solving in resource-constrained environments. Based in regional Gippsland, Victoria, Anna is passionate about making the web more accessible for neurodivergent minds and exploring Model Context Protocols to bring richer context to blogging and front-end experiences.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Massey University
Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
javascript10
user-interface10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
css9
html9
php8
testing5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Aug 2021 - Sep 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:121 reviews, 36 commits, 107 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Anna contributed primarily to the Search functionality within the Jetpack plugin, implementing features related to the record meter, a component displaying indexed records. Their work included adding a record count component, a notice box with various informational messages, and integrating a new donut chart component using the Jetpack RecordMeterBar and adding display labels instead of slugs. The user also made formatting, styling, and accessibility improvements.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
annacmc/records-meter
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
A standalone React app to test consuming an API endpoint into a React progress bar
Contributions:9 reviews, 37 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 months
apireactjesttestingreact-progress
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