Dennis Snell
Software Engineer at Automattic, Inc.
Nomadic, United States
Summary
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RockstarDennis Snell is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building front-end, back-end, and mobile features across prominent open-source projects. As a contributor at Automattic, he has improved key WordPress components like Gutenberg and wp-calypso—adding block reordering, new block types, and UI refinements—and helped ship cross-platform apps such as Simplenote on Android and Electron. He also brings backend and systems experience, maintaining an Erlang MongoDB driver and contributing to Jetpack’s API and SEO integrations. Nomadic and curious, Dennis’s public repos reflect a learning-first approach: practical, exploratory code that repeatedly converts UX edge cases into robust, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (51)
editors10
json10
javascript10
develop10
erlang10
web-application10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
wordpress10
css10
blocks10
s610
data-serialization10
editor10
redux10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/simplenote-electron
Oct 2015 - Mar 2021
Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:214 reviews, 271 commits, 419 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily contributed to the front-end development of the application. They implemented new features by loading jade files and integrating configurations. They focused on the build process by creating and modifying webpack configurations including those for hot loading and code execution. The user introduced and refactored components, implemented improvements to the user interface, and integrated a Redux-based store for managing the state.
reactwindowselectronlinuxwindows-web
Automattic/wp-calypso
Sep 2015 - Nov 2021
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 537 commits, 1020 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily contributed to front-end development tasks within the WordPress.com project, specifically related to the `wp-calypso` repository. They worked on enhancing the user interface of the O2-Blocks, updating the Prev/Next block to utilize the URLInput component and creating a spoiler block. Additionally, the user addressed a display glitch in the reader sidebar and implemented a transform for spoiler blocks to enable auto-inferring of spoiler content from HTML.
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