Nicholas Garofalo
Director Of Marketing, WordPress.org
City of Batavia, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Garofalo is a marketing and growth leader with 13 years of experience blending technical chops and creative communication to help organizations build meaningful online presence. As Director of Marketing for WordPress.org at Automattic, he pioneers sustainable marketing practices in the open-source space while building documentation, processes, and teams that scale. His background as a developer and CTO gives him hands-on expertise in CRO, analytics, and integrations, enabling data-driven experiments that improve acquisition and retention. Nicholas has led cross-functional growth teams, run large experimentation programs, and migrated enterprise sites into WordPress networks for institutions like Cornell. He writes poetry in English and BASH—an apt metaphor for how he translates human stories into technical systems—and enjoys finding common patterns across wildly different clients. Based in Batavia, NY, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a rare union of computer science and English that shapes persuasive, measurable marketing.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science and English, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science and English at St. John Fisher University
English
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
wordpress10
redux10
branches10
api10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
nodejs10
react10
trac9
autocommit8
marketing8
git-repo8
cli5
git4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/Marketing-Team
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
The central repository for the WordPress Marketing Team
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 1 month
marketingwordpress
eidolonnight/Marketing-Team-Testing
Jun 2022 - Feb 2024
Testing ground for GitHub features.
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year 7 months
testingtesting-groundground
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