Grzegorz Ziółkowski
Staff Applied AI Engineer at Automattic
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolGrzegorz Ziółkowski is a Staff Applied AI Engineer and seasoned software leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-performance web applications and developer tools, now driving WordPress’s foundational AI integrations at Automattic. He combines deep front-end expertise (React, webpack, Playwright) and PHP/WordPress core knowledge with backend API design, authoring core changes that make WordPress agent-ready. A long-time open-source contributor and core committer on Gutenberg and WordPress, he’s improved editor UX, added server-side block rendering, and strengthened test coverage across flagship repos. Known for mentoring distributed teams and championing maintainability and performance, he blends pragmatic engineering with a systems view born from a control engineering and robotics background. Outside of work he’s an open sourcerer, family man and basketball fan who brings curiosity from real-world hobbies into thoughtful product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Control Engineering and Robotics, Master of Engineering - MEng, Control Engineering and Robotics at Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Polish, English, German
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Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
gutenberg10
react10
vnext10
phpunit9
css9
rest-api8
html8
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg-examples
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Examples for extending WordPress/Gutenberg with blocks.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 19 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Grzegorz primarily contributed to the development of Gutenberg blocks, focusing on examples and tutorials. They updated existing block examples to align with the latest Gutenberg documentation, including modifications to the "Hello World" example and improvements to the recipe card block. The user's work involved modifying and formatting Javascript and React code within the WordPress ecosystem. They also added unit tests to validate the project's global functionality.
wordpresswordpress-gutenberggutenbergwordpress-plugingutenberg-blocks
WordPress/wordpress-develop
May 2022 - Sep 2022
WordPress Develop, Git-ified. Synced from git://develop.git.wordpress.org/, including branches and tags! This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:729 reviews, 11 commits, 190 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Grzegorz primarily contributed to the WordPress development repository, focusing on block-related functionalities. Their commits involve adding new features like the `render` property in `block.json` files, which allows for server-side rendering, and enabling multiple asset registrations for different types of blocks. These changes affected core files and involved adjustments to REST API endpoints and testing. The user also addressed issues related to block styles and improved the build process.
branchessubversionwordpresstracpull-request
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