Matt Harrison
Lead Plugin Engineer at Hall Internet Marketing
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Harrison is a seasoned Lead Plugin Engineer with 14 years of experience building and securing web applications, currently shaping plugin development and code quality at CrossPeak Software. As Vice President at Hall Internet Marketing, he combines leadership with hands-on web engineering to deliver practical, business-focused solutions. He contributes to major open-source projects like WooCommerce, where his backend work improved webhook reliability and testing, preventing duplicate webhook issues and ensuring correct processing order. Based in Portland, Maine, he brings a strong Computer Science foundation from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a long history in internet marketing. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that reduce operational risk while keeping features shipping. He pairs an operator’s mindset with deep WordPress/plugin expertise, making him adept at turning integration challenges into robust, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteLake Region High School
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Github Skills (15)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
php10
webhooks10
ecommerce9
testing9
primeng6
xml6
css6
web-application6
jdbc6
nexus6
angular6
mysql6
java6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
May 2015 - Jan 2023
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the WooCommerce platform's webhook functionality and related testing. They refactored webhook processing to utilize WordPress' shutdown action, ensuring webhooks are queued correctly and processed after all data is updated. The user also addressed a bug related to duplicate webhooks, and implemented a fix to prevent issues with the timing of webhooks. Additionally, the user contributed to the addition of a filter for product reviews within the WordPress comment section.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
matt-h/rdio-enhancer
Jan 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:125 commits, 10 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 years 11 months
enhancementspluginrdio
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