Ronnie Burt
Product Lead, AI - WordPress.com at Automattic
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRonnie Burt is a product leader focused on AI-driven experiences for WordPress.com, bringing six years in tech and a prior decade in education to bridge pedagogy and product. At Automattic he progressed from Head of Gravatar to Product Lead, AI, demonstrating an ability to steer consumer-facing platforms and identity products toward smarter, user-centered outcomes. His background as a math teacher and MBA-trained business lead gives him a data-informed, user-focused approach to product strategy and cross-functional team leadership. Based in Austin, he combines curiosity about making the web better with practical experience scaling services and improving user trust. A wannabe musician and former educator, he often translates classroom empathy into product decisions that prioritize accessibility and clarity.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at LeTourneau University
Spanish
Github Skills (20)
git10
wordpress10
lms10
redux10
php10
subversion10
wordpress-plugin10
javascript9
nodejs9
react9
gutenberg8
plugin7
js5
jetpack4
wordpress-admin4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
burtrw/wordpress-develop
Jun 2020 - Dec 2025
WordPress Develop, Git-ified. Synced from git://develop.git.wordpress.org/, including branches and tags! This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
subversionwordpress
burtrw/sensei
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Sensei LMS WordPress Plugin
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 days
lmswordpress-plugin
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