Chad Chadbourne
Web Developer at Automattic
Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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RockstarChad Chadbourne is a web developer with a decade of experience currently building user-facing features at Automattic from his base in Laconia, New Hampshire. He transitioned internally from customer-facing roles into engineering, bringing a product-first mindset informed by years leading support teams and shipping delightful user experiences. His open-source work includes front-end contributions to WordPress Gutenberg—modernizing UI patterns and confirmation dialogs—and full‑stack improvements in wp‑calypso that improved API interactions and domain management. Comfortable across React-driven front ends and client/server refactors, he focuses on usability, maintainability, and pragmatic migrations away from deprecated APIs. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, support, and engineering perspectives to deliver reliable, user-centered solutions. Notably, his background in customer support gives him an uncommon sensitivity to edge-case UX and real-world user pain points when designing interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
apidoc10
wordpress10
ui-design10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
nodejs10
react10
testing9
e2e-test9
domain-name9
ux-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:493 reviews, 134 commits, 202 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to the user interface of the Gutenberg block editor, focusing on improving its functionality and user experience. Their work included updating icons, aligning labels, and migrating existing `confirm()` dialogs to the new `ConfirmDialog` component. The user also made changes related to post visibility, template editing, and navigation menu management, specifically involving confirmation dialogs and related e2e tests. These efforts highlight a focus on improving the editor's usability and modernizing its components.
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Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:193 reviews, 12 commits, 153 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily focused on migrating deprecated `wpcom.undocumented()` methods to `wpcom.req` within the WordPress.com platform. Their contributions involved refactoring domain-related functionalities, including domain availability checks, inbound transfer status, and auth code validation. These changes touched both the client-side (React components, domain utilities) and the underlying `wpcom.js` library, demonstrating a full-stack approach to improving API interactions and system maintainability. The user also made changes to DNS template configuration and domain connect functionality.
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