Daryl Houston
Talent Development Lead at Automattic
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaryl Houston is a talent development leader with 13+ years of experience blending hands-on software engineering and people leadership, currently designing leadership programs at Automattic that turn individual contributors into effective team leads and executives. He’s known for building peer-mentorship spaces, coaching on performance management, and creating practical learning strategies grounded in empathy and strong feedback. His technical roots—from contributing bug fixes to the high-profile Automattic/Jetpack repo to early roles as a developer and systems administrator—inform a pragmatic approach to developing technical leaders. A lifelong remote worker since 2005, he favors hands-on mentorship and continuous learning, drawing on an English writing degree to communicate complex ideas clearly. Outside work he’s a serial hobbyist—blacksmith, reader, occasional D&D player and former hurler—which mirrors his curiosity-driven career growth.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, Writing, B.A., English, Writing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
debugging10
rest-api10
php10
debug10
plugin10
javascript9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Dec 2013 - Mar 2017
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 Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Daryl primarily contributed to the Grunion Contact Form feature, fixing bugs related to data handling in dropdowns and radio buttons. They focused on improving the parsing of form data and the method by which new options are added. Furthermore, the user addressed issues in the REST API related to post updates, ensuring correct dates when transitioning from draft to published states. They also addressed a typo and resolved an image distortion issue.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
dllh/wp_scripts
Nov 2012 - Sep 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
wordpressmiscellaneouswordpress-scripts
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