Payton Swick
Code Wrangler at Automattic
Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolPayton Swick is a pragmatic back-end engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining robust web systems, currently shipping code at Automattic. He blends deep WordPress plugin expertise—contributing bug fixes and new features to the high-profile Jetpack project—with tooling improvements for developer workflows like null-ls.nvim and DefinitelyTyped type definitions. Prior roles show broad systems chops from running university-scale email infrastructure to single-handed IT management, plus hands-on product work leading a WordPress site and POS rollout for a specialty retail business. Based in Burlington, Vermont, he pairs a craftsman’s attention to detail with a habit of continuous learning (and a fondness for tea), often improving developer ergonomics and reliability in subtle but high-impact ways.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Clark UniversityFalmouth Academy
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
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:4 reviews, 25 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Payton primarily contributed to the Jetpack plugin by fixing bugs and implementing new features related to various modules, most notably Custom CSS, Infinite Scroll, and Testimonial plugins, along with REST API endpoints. They addressed issues such as incorrect behavior in restoring CSS revisions and the interaction of Infinite Scroll with the Customizer. Furthermore, the user worked on improvements to the Testimonial plugin, ensuring correct image handling and featured image settings. The contributions show an understanding of WordPress plugin development and REST API integration.
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DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Payton primarily contributed to improving the TypeScript type definitions for the `@wordpress/components` library, enhancing the type safety and developer experience for components like Animate, DropdownMenu, ResizableBox, ToolbarButton, Guide and ComboboxControl. They added missing prop types, corrected existing ones, and integrated new components within the type definitions. The user also worked on addressing type issues related to the `@wordpress/data` library, specifically concerning return types of dispatched actions.
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