Michael Adams
Engineer at Automattic
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Adams is a seasoned engineer with 21 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Automattic from his Pasadena base. He specializes in JSON and REST API work, having contributed robust fixes to Jetpack—one of WordPress’s most widely used plugins—improving comment submission, content-type normalization, datetime handling, and embedded-content shortcodes. With a foundation in chemistry and mathematics (BS, University of Rochester) and further study at Caltech, he brings analytical rigor to practical web engineering problems. Known for quietly strengthening security and data sanitation (custom icon URL sanitation, post flair fixes), he combines deep backend craftsmanship with long-term product stewardship at a major open-source company.
20 years of coding experience
California Institute of TechnologyBS, Chemistry, Mathematics, BS, Chemistry, Mathematics at University of Rochester
Github Skills (8)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
json-api10
api8
apim8
api-design8
phpunit7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Mar 2011 - Nov 2019
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 469 commits, 134 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end of the project, focusing on the JSON and REST APIs. They implemented fixes for comment submission errors, normalized Content-Type headers, and ensured proper datetime formatting. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to Google+ and other various shortcodes for embedded content. They also improved custom icon URL sanitation and post flair functionality.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
mdawaffe/auth.website
Jun 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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