Bryan Elliott
Punta Gorda, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Elliott is a frontend-leaning Senior/Staff Full-Stack Engineer with over 15 years of experience building scalable, performant web applications and shipping hundreds of production pull requests. He has driven high-impact features at Automattic—contributing to Jetpack and Calypso used by millions—and led engineering work that measurably improved revenue, checkout abandonment, and churn. Comfortable across React/TypeScript front-ends and PHP/Node back-ends, Bryan designs extensible component libraries, robust REST APIs, and production-ready tooling while mentoring teams and improving processes. His background includes building AR try-on experiences integrating WASM-based face detection and internal developer tooling like a CORS-bypassing browser extension at Two Sigma. Ranked in the top 9% on StackOverflow with answers that have helped hundreds of thousands, he combines deep hands-on craft with a passion for knowledge sharing and team culture. Based in Punta Gorda, FL, he’s actively seeking meaningful senior engineering opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems, Computer Information Systems at DeVry Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
wordpress10
user-interface10
plugin10
php10
front-end-development10
rest-api10
react10
back-end-development9
analytics9
regex9
typescript9
typescript-types9
parsing9
backend9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:614 reviews, 175 commits, 383 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `wp-calypso` repository, focusing on the "Jetpack Offer Reset" project. Their work involved the modification of React components within the plans-v2 directory, including updating the display of prices, adding a site selection interface, and creating a customized "license" flow with associated styling. They also addressed various UI issues, such as alignment and layout problems within product cards and related components, and updating the "Jetpack Social" and "Jetpack Boost" product interfaces.
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Automattic/jetpack
May 2021 - Jul 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:343 reviews, 19 commits, 128 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bryan focused on implementing and enhancing features within the Jetpack plugin, with a specific emphasis on user licensing, checkout flows, and site backups. They added functionality to handle purchase tokens, developed new REST API endpoints for licensing and licensing-related notices, and integrated analytics tracking. Additionally, they made code modifications to display helpful prompts related to the backups plugin and also added more clarity regarding the realtime backups. The user's contributions span both frontend and backend code, showing a strong understanding of the WordPress ecosystem and related technologies.
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