Brad Jorsch
Code Wrangler at Automattic
Burlington, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Jorsch is a pragmatic back-end and DevOps engineer with 16 years of experience building and maintaining high-traffic web platforms, currently wrangling code at Automattic after an eight-year stint as a Senior Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. He specializes in PHP backend systems, database performance, and deployment tooling—contributions to MediaWiki and WordPress projects show deep familiarity with large open-source codebases and production-scale cache and build infrastructure. Brad’s work blends bug-fix rigor with refactoring and automation (Docker, Composer, phpcs), improving reliability and developer workflows while keeping compatibility across PHP versions. Based in Burlington, NC, he quietly balances corporate and personal open-source work, with a track record of practical fixes that reduce operational friction and improve site performance.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Northwestern University
Github Skills (19)
caching10
docker10
github-ci10
mysql10
wordpress10
code-standards10
dockers10
php10
githubaction-workflow10
composer10
postgresql9
phpcs9
apidoc9
bash9
database-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
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:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 4511 reviews, 825 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brad contributed to the Jetpack codebase with a focus on Docker and Composer configuration. The contributions included enhancing Docker-based SFTP key authentication and making adding themes/plugins less likely to break. They also addressed code quality issues through the use of phpcs and made improvements to the build process and dependency management.
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Automattic/wp-super-cache
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
[READ ONLY] WP Super Cache: A fast caching engine for WordPress. This repository is a mirror, for issue tracking and development head to: https://github.com/automattic/jetpack
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the WP Super Cache plugin. Their work included fixing issues related to the release process, updating dependencies, and addressing PHP compatibility problems. They also worked on code style and adhering to WordPress coding standards. In addition, the user modified configuration files to improve the plugin's performance.
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