Erick Danzer
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarErick Danzer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boulder, Colorado with 11 years of experience building polished front-end experiences. At Automattic he contributes to wp-calypso, helping shape the JavaScript-driven WordPress.com interface—notably the Launchpad onboarding flow and post-setup personalization for newsletters and site setup. He focuses on UI component design and dynamic content/styling, while also addressing editor tracking and broader full-site editor features. Comfortable shipping at scale in a high-profile open-source product, Erick blends product-minded front-end craft with pragmatic fixes that improve user onboarding and retention. Colleagues would describe him as a hands-on contributor who quietly improves developer and user workflows across a large distributed codebase.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
wordpress10
javascript10
front-end-development10
redux9
html9
css9
react7
nodejs7
s67
automated-tests7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:493 reviews, 58 commits, 352 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Erick primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress.com platform, specifically within the Calypso interface. Their commits demonstrate a focus on the Launchpad onboarding flow, including the creation of UI components (Checklist, ChecklistItem, Sidebar) and implementing dynamic content and styling. They also worked on integrating the new post-setup flow for newsletters and other site personalization features, along with fixing editor-tracking related issues. They are also involved in other parts of the platform such as the full site editor.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
edanzer/rent-multiplier
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Small react application that fetches average home values and rental prices by location, and calculates a gross rent multiplier.
Contributions:10 PRs, 23 pushes, 11 branches in 9 months
reactrentalpricesgrossmultiplier
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