Mark Biek
Senior Software Engineer at StudyMaker LLC
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolMark Biek is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience, currently contributing to Automattic from Louisville, Kentucky. He blends front-end expertise—having improved WordPress.com’s Calypso UI and WooCommerce flows—with full-stack theme and deployment work across Automattic’s themes ecosystem. His background spans embedded C on PalmOS to data analysis tools and large-scale web and mobile projects, reflecting a rare breadth from low-level systems to modern JavaScript and API-driven platforms. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he’s improved internationalization, theme build pipelines, and store setup UX in widely used open-source projects. Outside of code he’s grounded by family life and running, a balance that informs his steady delivery and long-term consulting engagements.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science/Mathematics, BA, Computer Science/Mathematics at Lewis & Clark College
Spanish
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Github Skills (55)
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
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python10
keyboard-shortcuts10
wordpress10
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regex10
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vi10
vim10
php10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:487 reviews, 105 commits, 367 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the user interface and user experience of the WordPress.com platform, focusing on features related to the WooCommerce plugin. They implemented new UI elements for the store setup process, including the store address step and theme-related enhancements. The user also added translations and made improvements to the theme showcase, ensuring a smooth user experience within the WordPress.com ecosystem. The changes involved React components, i18n integration, and interaction with the WordPress.com API.
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Automattic/themes
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the Automattic themes repository, focusing on theme updates, version bumps, and maintaining the WordPress theme infrastructure. Their work included updating theme URIs, bumping versions of multiple themes, and fixing issues related to theme support and title tags. They also made changes to the build and deployment processes, including updating theme utility scripts and environment variables for a more streamlined deployment procedure.
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