Matthew Gross
Solutions Architect at One More Cloud
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Gross is a Solutions Architect with 14 years of experience turning business requirements into engineered WordPress and PHP solutions, currently shaping platform strategy at One More Cloud. He blends technical depth—evident in contributions to the popular ElasticPress project where he improved bulk indexing and search relevancy—with a marketer’s instincts in SEO, analytics, and growth. Matthew has progressed from hands-on engineering roles at 10up and WP Engine to director-level business development, giving him a rare mix of delivery, product strategy, and client-facing leadership. Known for data-driven decision making and empathetic problem solving, he excels at translating complex needs into pragmatic systems that ship. Based in Lexington, KY, he’s as comfortable debugging batch indexing for Elasticsearch as he is aligning stakeholders around measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at University of Kentucky
English, German
Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
searching9
apidoc9
api9
testing7
debugging7
debug7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
10up/ElasticPress
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the ElasticPress plugin for WordPress, focusing on bulk indexing functionality and improving search relevancy. They implemented initial bulk indexing, including methods for queuing and processing posts in batches to Elasticsearch. Further work included merging changes, fixing variable references, and adjusting the search to fix date decay relevancy issues to maintain the relevance scores. Additionally, the user added a filter for admin notices, offering more granular control.
queryintranetquery-enginewp-querywordpress-api
mattonomics/wp-rocket
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Performance optimization plugin for WordPress
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
performance-optimizationwordpressoptimizationperformanceoptimizer
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