Six months ago, I wrote a post saying goodbye to Automattic after five incredible years. It felt like the right time to try something new, stretch different muscles, and see how engineering looked from a completely different vantage point.
My time away was incredibly valuable, and I’m grateful for the experience and the brilliant people I worked with. But leaving a place after half a decade gives you a rare kind of clarity. It forces you to figure out not just what you can build, but what you actually care about building.
Turns out, I deeply missed the open web.
I missed open source. I missed the specific energy of being part of a global community where the things we build are out in the open, shaped by and for the people using them. There is a unique pull to working in a space where you are directly connected to millions of everyday builders, creators, and developers, and I realised that’s exactly where I do my best work.
So, after a short but clarifying six-month detour, I’m incredibly excited to say I’m back at Automattic.
It feels a bit surreal to be writing a “hello again” post so soon after a goodbye, but when you know where you belong, there’s no point in waiting around. I’m ready to dive back into the community, get stuck into the code, and help push the open web forward again.
It’s absolutely class to be back, and I’m incredibly grateful to Automattic for having me back.