Steve Seear
Software Engineer at Meta
Millington, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Seear is a seasoned software engineer with over 25 years in systems and application development and a decade of focused experience in web and platform engineering. He has led teams and shipped product-critical features at scale, from real-time C/C++ systems at Motorola to dynamic language runtimes at IBM and platform work at Automattic before joining Meta. At Automattic he contributed to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress.com Calypso and Jetpack, improving both front-end UX and back-end REST APIs for millions of sites. Comfortable across the stack, he blends low-level performance awareness with modern React-based UI polish and API design. A pragmatic team lead and refactorer, he often tackles thorny integration issues—such as autofill quirks and connection-owner APIs—that improve developer and end-user experience. Based in Millington, England, he pairs academic grounding in computer science with a long track record of shipping reliable, user-focused software.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science at University of Liverpool
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
apidoc10
wordpress10
plugin10
php10
api10
theme-development10
rest-api10
react10
jsx10
json9
redux9
s69
html9
jscript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 452 commits, 771 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily worked on front-end components and user interface elements within the WordPress.com Calypso project. Their contributions involved modifying existing React components, particularly those related to Jetpack Backup and site settings. The user focused on enhancing the user experience by adding instructions, providing helpful links, and refining the layout of forms. They also addressed issues related to LastPass autofill behavior.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
Automattic/jetpack
Nov 2015 - May 2018
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:12 commits, 13 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Jetpack plugin, focusing on REST API endpoints and theme management features. Their work involved fixing bugs in the menu endpoint, enabling theme installations from WordPress.com, and adding support for the `podcasting_archive` site option. They also refactored contact form functionality and added a new API endpoint to change the connection owner.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
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