Greg Brown
Search And Data Wrangler
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Brown is a Search and Data Wrangler with 14+ years of experience building scalable search, recommendation, and NLP systems for WordPress.com and Jetpack, helping power products used by over a billion people each month. He blends deep systems engineering—FPGA/ASIC design, driver development, and high-speed circuit work—with software craftsmanship in distributed systems, REST APIs, and machine learning, and today focuses heavily on Elasticsearch. A prolific open-source contributor, Greg has improved Jetpack and WordPress.com search UX and backend APIs, and leads data efforts at Automattic from Boulder, Colorado. His background in electrical engineering and MS in computer science gives him a rare ability to optimize across hardware and software boundaries, making him effective at designing infrastructure that truly scales.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Cornell UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
plugin10
searching10
s69
css8
html8
redux8
jsx8
nodejs7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Oct 2012 - Apr 2021
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 & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 84 commits, 101 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the Jetpack plugin, making changes to both the back-end REST API and the front-end search widget. Their work included refactoring REST API endpoints to improve code structure and functionality. They also added features for cross-origin requests and implemented search widget styling improvements, including UX enhancements. The user demonstrated a focus on improving the user experience and code maintainability within the plugin.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2016 - Jan 2021
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 22 commits, 42 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily worked on front-end components within the WordPress.com ecosystem, particularly related to the Jetpack Search feature. Their commits involved modifying existing React components, adding new upsell elements, and adjusting settings related to the search functionality. The user also addressed issues, such as reverting changes and enabling/disabling features related to Jetpack Search. Several commits demonstrate the user's work on the checkout and purchase flows.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
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