Beau Lebens
Engineering Mananger at Automattic
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarBeau Lebens is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Head of Engineering for WooCommerce at Automattic, where he oversees product teams across the WordPress ecosystem. He blends hands-on full‑stack development with people leadership, having contributed to Jetpack features from front-end UI improvements to back-end HTTPS embed support and accessibility fixes. Based in Golden, Colorado, Beau is known for shipping practical, performance-minded changes that improve security and user experience at scale. He pairs pragmatic technical depth with cross-product collaboration across properties like WordPress.com, Jetpack, and Tumblr. An advocate for measurable impact, he brings both the discipline of shipping reliable systems and the curiosity to refine UX details that often go unnoticed.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (12)
wordpress10
php10
plugin10
javascript9
css9
accessibility8
react8
html7
instagram-api6
facebook-open-graph6
instagram6
webservice6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Jul 2012 - Apr 2019
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:60 commits, 20 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Beau primarily worked on the Jetpack plugin, contributing to both front-end and back-end functionalities. Their commits show involvement in updating existing features like "Likes" and "Scribd Shortcode", as well as adding support for HTTPS embeds. They also made improvements to UI elements such as the Gravatar Profile Widget and site verification tools, fixing errors and enhancing overall user experience. Furthermore, they addressed accessibility concerns and updated the user interface with performance enhancements, demonstrating a good understanding of the entire technology stack.
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beaulebens/keyring
Aug 2013 - Oct 2022
Keyring is an authentication framework for WordPress. It comes with definitions for a variety of HTTP Basic, OAuth1 and OAuth2 web services. Use it as a common foundation for working with other web services from within WordPress code.
Contributions:8 releases, 207 commits, 45 PRs in 9 years 4 months
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