Kelly Choyce-dwan
Staff Software Engineer at EdReports
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKelly Choyce-dwan is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building accessible, internationalized front-end systems and scalable design systems for high-traffic web platforms. Based in Philadelphia, she has driven major contributions across WordPress and WooCommerce—ranging from Gutenberg editor enhancements to UI components and build tooling that ship to millions of users. A remote-work and async-communication champion, she pairs hands-on React and PHP development with automation (Webpack, Jest, Puppeteer, CI) to improve team velocity and product quality. Her open source leadership includes attaining WordPress Core Committer status and coordinating release pages that attract thousands of daily views, reflecting both technical depth and community stewardship. Notably, she’s applied PostCSS automation to systematically modernize legacy CSS and reduced color variation across core projects by 62%, showing an eye for measurable front-end modernization.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Smith CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spanish, Korean
Github Skills (30)
woocommerce10
javascript10
ui-components10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
css10
databases10
ui-design10
sc10
webpack10
uid10
php10
component-kit10
scs10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/wordpress.org
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
WordPress.org Meta, Git-ified. Synced from git://meta.git.wordpress.org/ This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress Meta subversion repository. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 194 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kelly's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the official WordPress Events plugin. Their work involved implementing features to synchronize and display online events, including the addition of a shortcode for displaying them and the inclusion of timezone data. Furthermore, the user made several improvements to the internal workings of the plugin by updating data syncing and retrieval, as well as increasing pattern counts.
version-controlsubversionwordpressgit-metameta
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 167 commits, 451 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kelly focused on implementing and improving the user interface of the WooCommerce Blocks repository. They added dependencies for the product block, updated the build process to use Webpack, and implemented a Jest testing setup. The user also added a new "Products by Category" block along with a reusable search + list control for category selection and made the component more customizable.
wordpresswoocommercefeature-plugingutenbergwoocommerce-blocks
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