Mike Stott
Software Engineer at Automattic
Cheadle Hulme, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMike Stott is a software engineer with eight years of full‑stack experience, currently contributing as a "Code Wrangler" at Automattic from Cheadle Hulme, England. He has hands‑on experience enhancing Jetpack, implementing front- and back-end features (PHP, JavaScript, Svelte) and integrating with WordPress caching plugins to improve security, performance, and user engagement. Comfortable working across legacy code and modern UI components, he has refactored deprecated functions and added user-facing capabilities like support modals and survey notifications. His open-source contributions to a high‑visibility WordPress project demonstrate an ability to ship practical improvements that matter to millions of site owners.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
plugin10
svelte9
git8
css8
react8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
May 2022 - Nov 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:56 reviews, 34 commits, 56 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the Jetpack Boost plugin, primarily focusing on front-end and back-end development tasks. They implemented new features, such as the "seek support modal" and the addition of a survey notification, which involved modifications to PHP, JavaScript, and Svelte files. Additionally, the user refactored existing code and addressed deprecated function calls, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's codebase and technologies. This user also worked on integrating the plugin with the WP Super Cache plugin.
jetpacksecuritywordpressphpplugin
Automattic/zbs-crm-code-examples
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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