Daisy Olsen
Course Instructor At LinkedIN Learning (formerly Lynda.com) at LinkedIn
New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaisy Olsen is a product-minded developer and educator with 11 years of experience building and communicating WordPress-focused products and developer tools. As a Course Instructor at LinkedIn Learning and a former Developer Relations lead at Automattic, she blends hands-on technical knowledge with user research and public speaking to translate complex features into practical learning. Her background spans senior engineering and product leadership—launching hundreds of features, managing agile roadmaps, and reducing time-to-launch and support overhead through clear documentation. Comfortable switching between coding, product ownership, and stakeholder engagement, she’s known for creating developer-focused curricula grounded in real user interviews and personas. Based in New Hampshire, she’s been active in the WordPress community since 2007 and continues to turn community insight into scalable educational products.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Rockland Community CollegeAssociate's degree, Associate's degree at Nyack College
Github Skills (19)
wordpress10
gutenberg-blocks10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress-gutenberg9
redux8
nodejs7
javascript7
blocks7
api7
react7
wordpress-api4
reservation-system4
styles3
plugin3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DaisyOlsen/gutenberg
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Contributions:34 pushes, 8 branches, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
DaisyOlsen/block-theme-workshop
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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