Marko Andrijasevic
Machine Learning Engineer at Automattic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarko Andrijasevic is a Machine Learning Engineer based in San Francisco with 14+ years building production software and 15 years of remote work experience across product, infrastructure, and ML roles. Now on Automattic’s Deep Learning team, he trains and fine-tunes computer vision and NLP models deployed across WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and Akismet. Previously he led engineering teams for WordPress.com’s hosting and Site Editor, blending hands-on full‑stack development with people leadership at scale. A prolific open-source contributor, Marko has made significant front-end and full‑stack contributions to flagship projects like Gutenberg, Jetpack, and Automattic’s themes—driving Full Site Editing and SEO features used by millions of sites. He co-founded ML-driven products earlier in his career, building data pipelines, LDA-based generative models, and REST APIs, which gives him rare end-to-end product and research fluency. Comfortable switching between model training and shipping customer-facing UI, he excels at bringing ML into large, distributed web platforms.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Montenegro
English, German, bosnian-croatian-montenegrin-serbian
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
seo10
wordpress-themes10
ui-components10
wordpress10
php10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
apidoc9
template-engine9
s69
templater9
css9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2016 - Nov 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 240 commits, 573 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Marko contributed to Full Site Editing (FSE) features within the WordPress.com platform. They primarily worked on the "Full Site Editing" plugin, adding new features like a template taxonomy and filters to disable FSE on specific platforms. Additionally, the user implemented functionality to replace page areas with template parts, including the header and footer, based on the assigned page templates. They also addressed coding standards and user interface improvements.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:173 reviews, 22 commits, 61 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marko primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Gutenberg editor. They fixed import issues and updated the DotTip component within the Nux package. Furthermore, they implemented features like the fullscreen mode, the site editor's block breadcrumb, and the more menu, enhancing the user interface. The user also refactored the close button and added the preview options to the site editor.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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