Shaun Andrews
Principal Designer at Automattic
Town of Vestal, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Andrews is a Principal Designer with 12 years of experience who blends product-minded design with front-end engineering at Automattic. He started his career founding Upstate Interactive, where he led design and development work, and now focuses on refining user experiences for widely used platforms. An active contributor to WordPress Gutenberg, Shaun has shipped UI and UX improvements—from keyboard shortcuts and admin menu refactors to list view and hover-state polish—that demonstrate attention to small details that meaningfully improve editor workflows. Trained as a mechanical engineer at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, he brings a systems-thinking approach to interaction design and front-end implementation. Based in Vestal, New York, he pairs entrepreneurial roots with large-scale open-source impact.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
gutenberg10
react10
interface-design9
user-interface9
css8
accessibility7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 61 commits, 39 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Gutenberg editor, making UI/UX improvements. Their work included modifications to the preview button, adding and modifying keyboard shortcuts for fullscreen mode, and refactoring the admin menu toggle within the editor's interface. Further contributions focused on UI enhancements, such as the "List view" and block-parent selector. They also addressed visual details, like hover states and whitespace, to refine the user experience.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
helen/wp-media-grid-view
Sep 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 8 months
grid-viewwordpresswordpress-mediawordpress-plugingrid
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