Paxana Wiedeman
Happiness Engineer at Automattic
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaxana Wiedeman is a mobile application developer with a decade of experience building Android apps and mobile backends, currently applying customer-focused problem solving as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Proficient in Kotlin, Java, Android SDK and Firebase, Paxana built Trigger.Watch — an app enabling community voting on potentially triggering media content — and is expanding into Swift and iOS development. Their background includes open-source experience with GNOME Recipes, a formal CS degree from Portland State, and a full-stack certification from freeCodeCamp, reflecting both academic and practical breadth. Based in Portland, they gravitate toward emerging technologies and socially conscious projects, combining technical craft with user empathy.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Portland State UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
English, German
Stackoverflow
389reputation
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11answers
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Github Skills (52)
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
wordpress10
redux10
plugin10
api10
wordpress-plugin10
nodejs10
react10
jetpack9
php9
traffic9
js9
security8
marketing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Joan-Clarke-Tech-Collective/Raderie
Feb 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:10 PRs, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 3 months
Aye-Bee-See/sqlite-react-frontend
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:34 PRs, 71 pushes, 12 branches in 11 months
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