Aram Zucker-scharff
Software Development Manager at The Washington Post
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAram Zucker-Scharff is a software development manager and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building web platforms, ad tech, and privacy-compliant systems at The Washington Post. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to WordPress Core and wp-graphql—with team leadership roles spanning ad engineering, privacy & security compliance, and R&D. A former full-stack developer and media strategist, he brings a rare mix of newsroom, product, and technical oversight that informs pragmatic solutions for legal and compliance challenges around data. He’s also a seasoned consultant and educator who has run workshops on SEO, responsive design, and WordPress plugin development. Based in New York, Aram pairs creative content instincts (fiction writing and journalism credits) with deep technical chops in web architecture, security, and open source. Notably, his open-source work improved stability and error handling in the widely used WordPress GraphQL plugin, reflecting a focus on reliability across distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA English, Bachelor of Arts - BA English at George Mason University
Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
apim10
graphql10
router10
php10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-plugin10
api-design10
routers10
plugin10
testing9
documentation8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
wp-graphql/wp-graphql
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
:rocket: GraphQL API for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Aram focused on improving the functionality and stability of the WordPress GraphQL API plugin. Their work involved adding activation and deactivation hooks, implementing error handling for empty queries, and refining the router's AJAX context behavior. Furthermore, the user contributed by adhering to WordPress code standards, and updating documentation. Their commits also included refactoring and adjustments to enhance plugin performance and reliability.
graphql-apiwordpressgraphqlwp-plugingraphql-server
AramZS/resume
Aug 2014 - Jun 2021
Plain, simple, responsive, printable. As basic as it gets.
Contributions:61 commits, 15 PRs, 53 pushes in 6 years 11 months
responsiveprintableplain
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