annezazu (@annezazu) – WordPress user profile

Bio

A minimalistic, optimistic, and athletic nomad who enjoys photography, deep conversations, and thought provoking questions. I aim to be a dot connector, accelerant, and doer across the most impactful areas of the WordPress ecosystem, alongside my work within Automattic.

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress my freshman year of college at UNC Chapel Hill while searching for a job on campus. I had been using Blogger for a private blog with friends the previous 5-6 years. When I saw an “Instructional Technologist” job pop up, I jumped to apply. That was in 2011 and I haven’t looked back since.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '20 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '21 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '22 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

Community Contributor '20 WordCamp Speaker '21

PRACTICE

3 badges

C Credits Graduate '26 Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

Current Job

Architecture & Open Source Director

Feb 2025 – Present

Automattic

Accelerant, integrator, doer, and dot connector working on the leadership team across Automattic’s 270+ person engineering organization and the broader WordPress.org open source community.

Job History

Product Manager

Mar 2022 – Feb 2025

Automattic

Led cross-functional initiatives across Automattic and the global WordPress.org open-source community to drive product development and user adoption.

Developer Relations Wrangler

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022

Automattic

First developer relations wrangler at Automattic, approached the role with a mindset of paving the way to grow the practice internally while cultivating a welcoming, interactive, and knowledge-rich environment within the WordPress.org open source community through creating resources, facilitating meaningful conversations, initiating targeted outreach efforts, and more.First developer relations wrangler at Automattic, approached the role with a mindset of paving the way to grow the practice internally while cultivating a welcoming, interactive, and knowledge-rich environment within the WordPress.org open source community through creating resources, facilitating meaningful conversations, initiating targeted outreach efforts, and more.

Key Accomplishments

WordPress 5.9 Test Co-Lead.

Ran the Full Site Editing Outreach program from May 2020 to February 2024, a pioneering new program designed to gather feedback from users, builders, and developers to improve phase 2 of WordPress.

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

13contributions

high1

medium12

score15

Last 90 days

73contributions

high10

medium63

score93

Last 12 months

293contributions

high42

medium251

score377

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 16 releases

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 03 Fri · 21:14

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.1 Release Party Schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for all the effort to pull this together!

Jul 03 Fri · 16:45

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal: Expanding WordPress Core Abilities, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Also probably important to share the AI Team’s consensus on last week’s contributor call was…

Jul 03 Fri · 03:53

Core med

Closed pull request #79719 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Global Styles: replace per-control push with a granular "Apply globally" review modal

Jul 02 Thu · 05:57

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Guidelines for Syncing Code From Gutenberg Into WordPress Develop, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks so much for all the thought and effort that went into pulling this together.

June 2026

Jun 30 Tue · 20:01

Core med

Submitted pull request #79719 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Global Styles: replace per-control push with a granular "Apply globally" review modal

Jun 26 Fri · 20:40

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for this thoughtful proposal and for thinking beyond just the initial Guidelines feature. Adding…

Jun 21 Sun · 22:39

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Roadmap to 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Hey @justlevine! Thanks for your questions. In terms of "which component does connectors fall under",…

Jun 19 Fri · 21:04

GitHub med

Created issue #701 in the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
WordPress.org profiles: fix the credits API to correctly reflect release squads

Jun 19 Fri · 00:07

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Roadmap to 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 7.1 is set to be released on August 19th, 2026. This release advances how…

Jun 17 Wed · 22:33

Core med

Created issue #79299 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
7.1 Microsite