Evan Mattson
Principal Engineer at 10up
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Mattson is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading web engineering teams, currently based in the Detroit area and holding senior technical roles at 10up and Fueled. He brings deep WordPress expertise across both back-end and front-end work, contributing to prominent open-source projects like AMP for WordPress, WP-CLI, The Events Calendar, Timber, and Google Site Kit. Known for pragmatic improvements—such as refining Xdebug admin notices, expanding glob handling in WP-CLI, and adding test coverage—he focuses on maintainability, developer ergonomics, and reliable UX. Evan has progressed through technical leadership roles from hands-on web developer to associate director and principal engineer, demonstrating both execution and mentorship. He pairs a practical applied-IT education with a long history of shipping plugin- and framework-level fixes that improve extensibility and error handling. Colleagues would note his attention to small but impactful details and a dry sense of humor hinted at by his self-deprecating GitHub bio.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree of Applied Science, Information Technology, Associates Degree of Applied Science, Information Technology at ITT Techinical Institute
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (29)
application-framework10
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
back-end-development10
ui-components10
ampl10
testing10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
app-framework10
google-amp10
wp-cli10
php10
event-calendar10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/site-kit-wp
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:76 releases, 3394 reviews, 7916 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the user interface components and settings within the Google Site Kit for WordPress plugin, as indicated by the commit messages mentioning settings stories, UI components, and web components. The user's work focused on integrating the Google Tag Manager with Analytics properties and adding features and improvements related to the user experience of the dashboard. They also worked on various aspects of UI development, including implementing new components and user interface updates.
everythingwordpress-apiwordpressstopoffer
wp-cli/wp-cli
Sep 2015 - Mar 2021
⚙️ WP-CLI framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 11 PRs, 34 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan focused on enhancing the WP-CLI framework by implementing new utility functions and integrating glob patterns for file inclusion. They added a new utility function to expand globs and integrated it with the `require` configuration option. Furthermore, they improved code documentation, corrected code properties, and added tests for http requests, highlighting their focus on code quality and functionality. The user also contributed to improved error handling and SSL certificate management.
wp-cliwordpressphpcli-frameworkframework
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