Matthias Pfefferle
Open Web Lead at Social Web Foundation
Ettlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Pfefferle is an Open Web leader with 16 years building and scaling WordPress-centric products and teams, now leading open web efforts at Automattic. He combines hands-on prototyping and PHP engineering with strategic program-building—from founding teams at IONOS to advising the Social Web Foundation. A longtime advocate of the IndieWeb and Fediverse, Matthias drives ActivityPub and decentralized social features in WordPress while hosting a podcast that highlights practical builders in the open web space. He has a track record of technical leadership across startups and enterprises, optimizing high-traffic systems, CI/CD, and team culture. Based in Ettlingen, Germany, he pairs grassroots community work (organizing WordCamps) with product-focused execution at scale. An enthusiast for experimental tooling, he often turns quick prototypes into production-grade integrations that advance web openness.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Online Medien, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Online Medien at Hochschule Furtwangen
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
phpcs10
wordpress-themes10
photo10
automation10
subversion10
pingback10
schema10
rel10
api10
home-automation10
diaspora10
subscriber10
font-awesome10
nodejs10
endpoint10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
indiewebpress/composer
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 11 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years 5 months
1and1/wp-cosy-address-book
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Sends website visitor form contact data to IONOS Address Book
Contributions:5 releases, 23 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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