Mayuko Moriyama is a versatile web professional with 11 years of experience building WordPress-powered sites, contributing to the WP REST API and translating core WordPress into Japanese. She blends full-stack engineering skills with product and community leadership, having led WordCamp Tokyo 2014, supported the global WordPress community team, and organized tech meetups across Asia. As a freelance developer and former product manager at KabuK Style, she helped design hospitality services that promoted co-living and workcation lifestyles. Recently she has operated a busy coworking space in Kuala Lumpur while working in bilingual customer support and technical translation roles. Her open-source work includes backend improvements to WordPress’s REST API validation and internationalization, reflecting attention to UX and localization details. Adaptable and community-focused, she routinely merges hands-on coding with event organization and cross-cultural communication.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Ethic, Information and Communication, bachelor, Ethic, Information and Communication at Meiji University
The WP REST API has been merged into WordPress core. Please do not create issues or send pull requests. Submit support requests to the forums or patches to Trac (see README below for links).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Mayuko primarily contributed to the project by modifying code related to validation and error handling within the WP REST API. Their work involved refactoring the error messages, adding translator comments, and adjusting the format to ensure the correct use of language and the precision of the descriptions. They also implemented argument swapping for multiple placeholders within the validation functions.
Contributions:3 releases, 18 commits, 14 pushes in 5 months
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