Thanks for checking out my career-in-tech page!
I’m an Open Source Contributor and a technical team lead.
I am so blessed to be sponsored by Elementor to contribute to the WordPress Open Source Project! I’ve been a Hosting Team Rep for the WordPress Project for 6 (non-consecutive) years, and in 2026 I also became a Core Team Rep. I’ve contributed to a few WordPress software releases in varying capacity, most notably as a Release Coordinator for WordPress 6.9 and 7.0. I’ve also worked at 3 different web hosts in a technical and/or team lead capacity and am well versed in web hosting infrastructure.
My skills are hybrid: landing somewhere between project/team management, full stack development/system administration, and user experience, with a splash of product development thrown in.
My woman-in-tech story:
I started my career in the tech industry in 2015, working in social support for a web host. I quickly moved up into technical support, then to live chat where I started acting in a leadership capacity and was top rated for quality assurance repeatedly. From there, I helped form a specialized WordPress support team where I worked on devising and documenting team processes, trained agents, took escalations and provided advanced support for enterprise clients. While working as a WordPress Support Specialist I started pushing code to hosting infrastructure and CRM backend, and helped spearhead product development and implementation of new Web Development Professional Service products, which made a five figure profit (revenue, after expenses) in beta under my leadership.
In 2018 I started contributing to the WordPress Open Source Project and in 2019 I became a team lead for the WordPress.org Hosting Team.
In 2019 I jumped ship and became a tech lead for a web development agency, and then in 2020 moved on to be the Web Development Manager for a second web host. As a Web Development manager I had 5 developers and 3 UIUX designers under my purview, along with over 23 online corporate assets, 5 web servers, 2 Jira projects, and the corresponding infrastructure such as GitLab repos and CICD pipelines.
From there I was recruited to be a solutions architect for enterprise WordPress clients at a third web host, but the work environment was very uncomfortable for me (such a waste of 8 interviews/code tests!) and I left after just under a year, and was recruited for a web development contract for my local government (LA County Public Works). The contract ended a year later and I have been doing freelance web development ever since.
How art crossed over into tech:
My affinity with technology did not start in 2015, though. I learned html in the year 2000 and worked as an html programmer as one of my first jobs. When I was in undergrad at OTIS, studying fine art and making video installations (2000-2004), I used PHP as an art tool, along with a wide array of web, graphic and video technology to make installations in gallery spaces, and interactive animations online. I learned photography, photoshop and final cut pro.
In 2004 I started working at an animation studio as an ink and painter and background artist working on a RedHat box, and was introduced to Avid. I worked on an award winning independent film and a few tv shows. In 2005 I started working at a film post-production facility where I was using DOS (command line) to process video inventory, helped out in the tape room transferring and duplicating videos in various formats, and worked with the web team to manage online video assets. During my time there I was mentored by a 3x Emmy winning special effects editor who taught me how to use Autodesk Flame, which runs on a Unix box.
I then attended the UCLA TFT Animation Workshop for my masters degree. In grad school studying animation I did mostly 2D fine art animations, but spent a year focusing on interactive animation using Flash. Flash was perfect for me because it was half coding half animation. I finished grad school in June 2014 and started working in the tech industry in February of 2015. And the rest is history!