Matt Wiebe
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
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Top SchoolMatt Wiebe is a seasoned design engineer with 16 years in web and product development, including a 13-year tenure at Automattic where he joined as employee ~130 and helped shape WordPress.com’s JavaScript-driven Calypso platform. He specializes in front-end React work and full-stack WordPress engineering, contributing notable improvements to Full Site Editing, UX flows, and the widely used Jetpack and Automattic themes. Prior to Automattic he ran Soma Design Group, giving him entrepreneurial experience and a strong design-to-code sensibility. Based in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, he blends practical UI craftsmanship with backend theme and plugin enhancements, including accessibility and internationalization refinements. Colleagues rely on him to translate design intent into robust components and to simplify complex editor workflows. He pairs liberal-arts curiosity with deep product-focused engineering, often surfacing subtle UX fixes that improve large-scale open-source platforms.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelo of Arts (Honours), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Bachelo of Arts (Honours), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at St. Stephen's University
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:115 reviews, 115 commits, 238 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Full Site Editing (FSE) features of the WordPress.com platform. Their work involved developing and modifying React components, particularly those related to template updates, customizer links, and the Site Editor interface. Key contributions included the addition of a beta enrollment step to the onboarding flow and various UI/UX improvements for the FSE experience within the Calypso dashboard.
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Automattic/jetpack
Dec 2013 - Dec 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 reviews, 54 commits, 46 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Jetpack plugin by addressing various issues related to Markdown parsing, internationalization, and custom post types. They improved the matching of code elements within Markdown and updated the luminance and contrast calculations. Furthermore, the user worked on streamlining translation contexts, removing unnecessary code and providing various enhancements across the plugin's features and settings, including changes to the testimonials and integration with WordPress.com.
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