Austin Passy
President at Frosty Media
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Passy is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years focused on large-scale PHP and WordPress systems, currently president of Frosty Media. He previously served as Principal Software Engineer for content at Crain and led Content Engineering at Beachbody, where he managed enterprise WordPress installs and AppSync/GraphQL integrations. Deep experience with PHP since 2005 and WordPress since 2007 gives him a rare institutional knowledge of CMS architecture, migrations, and performance at scale. He combines hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, shipping high-traffic sites and guiding cross-functional teams. Based in Santa Monica, he pairs professional rigor with a founder’s mindset—running his own agencies since 2007. Outside of work he’s a dedicated golfer and Dodgers fan, a detail that speaks to his competitive, team-oriented approach.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Academy of Entertainment & Technology at Santa Monica CollegeWilliam Howard Taft Senior High
English
Stackoverflow
183reputation
32kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (182)
wp-api10
phpredis10
custom-post-type10
backend10
clustering10
composer10
opengraph10
object-cache10
relay10
seo10
wordpress10
youtube10
custom-fields10
wordpress-api10
master-slave10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dwnload/wp-rest-api-object-cache
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Enable object caching for WordPress' REST API. Aids in increased response times of your applications endpoints.
Contributions:13 releases, 79 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 2 months
cachingrestrest-apiwordpresswordpress-plugin
thefrosty/wp-featured-image-column
Dec 2016 - Dec 2025
Adds a column to public post types edit screen where the featured image of each post will be shown (if available).
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 9 years 1 month
post-typecolumnsfeatured-imagewordpresswordpress-plugin
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