Matthew Denton
Data Engineer
Town of Manlius, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Denton is a Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and QA tooling, currently innovating at Automattic from his home base in Manlius, NY. He blends deep backend development chops—demonstrated through contributions to major WordPress projects like Jetpack, AMP for WordPress, and The Events Calendar—with practical QA and automation expertise. His work spans API and sync improvements, analytics integrations, and automated UI testing, showing an eye for both feature delivery and long-term maintainability. A former senior developer at JPMorgan Chase and lead developer at UpTrending, he combines enterprise-grade rigor with open-source collaboration. Outside of work he’s a husband and father of three who recharges with coding and reading, bringing both technical focus and real-world balance to his projects.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Mathematics (BoS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Computational Mathematics (BoS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
codeception10
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back-end-development10
ampl10
testing10
wordpress10
google-amp10
php10
front-end-development10
event-calendar10
wordpress-plugin10
js10
api-design9
automation9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Dec 2017 - Mar 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:2 releases, 261 reviews, 175 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to various aspects of the Jetpack plugin, demonstrating a solid understanding of both backend and frontend development. Their commits focused on enhancing widget visibility, implementing updates to the full sync functionality and improving UI components. They also worked on bug fixes and code enhancements, including changes to the footer and adjustments to the REST API endpoints.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and testing of the WordPress plugin. They addressed a typo in the CSV importer, added and removed template tags for event start/end times, and cleaned up the return types of date/time functions. Additionally, the user implemented automated UI tests, integrated WebDriver, and created steps for event creation, thereby demonstrating a focus on quality assurance.
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