Joseph Scott
Engineer at Automattic
Sandy, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Scott is a seasoned engineer with 16 years at Automattic leading performance work across WordPress.com, Jetpack and related services, and a long background in systems and network administration dating back to the mid-1990s. He combines deep back-end and DevOps expertise—improving WebPageTest, optimizing EC2 workflows, and removing legacy dependencies in Jetpack—with hands-on experience shipping scalable, performance-minded features for high-traffic WordPress sites. Based in Sandy, Utah, he brings practical Unix-era sysadmin roots (Sun/FreeBSD) to modern cloud operations, bridging low-level infrastructure reliability with application-level performance tuning. Colleagues rely on him to quietly keep instances online, reduce warning noise, and incrementally modernize large open-source codebases while preserving compatibility.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Information Systems, B.S., Computer Information Systems at California State University, Stanislaus
Github Skills (12)
ec10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
amazon-ec210
devops9
javascript9
cloud-infrastructure9
xml9
json9
cdn7
react3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
catchpoint/WebPageTest
Oct 2015 - Dec 2018
Official repository for WebPageTest
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 4 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joseph made several contributions to the WebPageTest project, primarily focused on improving the functionality and performance of the platform. These include modifications to expose mobile test statuses in various result formats (JSON, XML, and header display), introducing and refining a setting for EC2 instance idle termination, and implementing a fix to ensure an EC2 instance is kept online to process new tests. The user also updated the CDN list and fixed PHP warnings in the code.
javascriptwebpagetest
Automattic/jetpack
Apr 2014 - Oct 2020
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 Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on modifying the bandcamp shortcode functionality within the Jetpack plugin. Their contributions included updating the shortcode to support video players, adding attributes for exclusive embedded players, and providing smaller images in the Carousel when the full-size is very large. Additionally, the user made changes to ensure code compatibility and remove dependencies, such as removing the jQuery dependency from postmessage.js.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
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