Kailey Lampert
Staff Engineer at XWP
United States
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Top SchoolKailey Lampert is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of full-stack web experience, specializing in WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and front-end HTML/CSS/JavaScript. She has advanced from building themes and custom plugins to shaping platform reliability and performance at organizations like 10up, WordPress VIP, and now XWP. Kailey brings practical expertise in SQL query optimization and edge-case handling—evidenced by back-end contributions to Automattic’s widely used Co-Authors Plus plugin to improve author archives and data integrity. Equally comfortable in code and client-facing roles, she pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for shipping maintainable WordPress solutions at scale. Off the clock she humorously notes “4 cats in a trenchcoat,” hinting at a collaborative, creative personality behind rigorous technical work.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Multimedia Communications, AAS, Multimedia Communications at Peninsula College
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Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
databases10
php10
querying10
sql10
database10
wordpress-plugin9
git8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/Co-Authors-Plus
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Multiple bylines and Guest Authors for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 13 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kailey primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the WordPress plugin, focusing on SQL query optimization and fixing issues related to private posts in the author archive. They made changes to the core `co-authors-plus.php` file, modifying database queries and adding filters to handle author archives. The user also implemented changes to address edge cases for guest authors, including fixing a warning that surfaced upon their deletion. These contributions aimed to improve the plugin's functionality and data integrity.
authorswordpresswordpress-pluginguestwpvip-plugin
trepmal/wp-revisions-cli
Feb 2014 - Apr 2020
WP-CLI command. Manage post revisions.
Contributions:2 releases, 56 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 2 months
cli-commandwp-cliwordpresswp-cli-commandrevisions
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