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title: "Courtney Robertson Resume"
date: 2026-08-17
author: "Courtney Robertson"
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# Courtney Robertson Resume

**Open source program leadership · Instructional design · Software supply chain transparency**

Chambersburg, PA · Eastern time · Remote · [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/courtneyr-dev/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/developer-advocacy-community) · [WordPress.org](https://profiles.wordpress.org/courane01/)

*Currently open to new roles.* I am looking for open-source program leadership, developer education and instructional design, or work in documentation and supply chain transparency. I work remotely and travel roughly 15% of the time. Full details in [What’s Next](/whats-next-open-source-sbom-docs/).



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## Summary

Open source program director and professional educator with 18+ years bridging technology and community. I directed GoDaddy’s WordPress open-source program from its start, decided where the company’s open-source funding went, and built developer education around both. I contributed to CISA’s community white paper on SaaSBOM and to the Linux Foundation’s FAIR Package Manager. My work sits where open source strategy, developer education, and software supply chain transparency meet.

## Core competencies

- Open source program management, contributor programs, and governance
- Software supply chain security and transparency (SBOM, SaaSBOM)
- Instructional design, curriculum development, and developer education at scale
- Technical writing, documentation strategy, and release communication
- Developer advocacy, community strategy, and foundation relations
- AI-assisted developer tooling and enablement content
- WordPress · PHP · JavaScript · React · CSS · HTML · Git

## Experience

### Open Source Sr. Web Design & Developer Advocate — GoDaddy, 2021–2026

- **Directed the WordPress open source program from its start.** At its height the [Five for the Future pledge](https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledge/godaddy/) covered 46 sponsored contributors across 17 WordPress teams at 255 hours per week — second-largest contributor of people in the program and third by pledged hours.
- **Chose where $596K in open source funding went,** then made the internal case to keep it funded: $520,000 to The WPOCC, $40,000 to the W3C, $24,000 to the PHP Foundation, $12,000 to PHP\_CodeSniffer, plus OpenJS Foundation support and annual live captioning for the WordPress Accessibility Meetup. Announced in the [GoDaddy resources post](https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/supporting-open-source-contributors-and-wordpress) I wrote and the accompanying [press release](https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/news-releases/press-release-details/2025/GoDaddy-Donates-500K-to-Support-WordPress-Community/default.aspx).
- **Drove release readiness with site reliability engineering.** When WordPress core needed hosts to test features at scale, I identified what mattered and got it in front of GoDaddy’s SREs. For [WordPress 7.0](https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/wordpress-7-0-real-time-collaboration-arrives-in-core), that load testing of real-time collaborative editing fed back to core and contributed to the feature being held rather than shipped and rolled back.
- **Raised WordPress customer problems to the teams who could fix them** across product, support, and hosting, instead of leaving them in forum threads.
- **Contributed to software supply chain transparency:** the Linux Foundation’s FAIR Package Manager, and CISA’s community white paper [Software Transparency in SaaS Environments](https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/software-transparency-saas-environments-0) through the SBOM Cloud and Online Applications working group.
- **Built developer and customer enablement content,** including WordPress release coverage read by GoDaddy customers and education material for [Learn.WordPress.org](https://learn.wordpress.org/). For GoDaddy Airo AI Builder, I wrote and hosted the video tutorials on the Inside Airo AI Builder channel, such as [How to Replace, Upload, and Manage Images in Airo AI Builder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXK9w7qUq5Y), and built a [prompt library](https://promptlibrary.c36.airoapp.ai/) that teaches Airo users how to write prompts that get them what they want.
- **Represented GoDaddy at community events** including WordCamp Asia, Europe, US, and Canada, delivering [technical talks ](https://courtneyr.dev/category/speaking/)and leading contributor sessions.
- Created the WordPress contributor onboarding survey and Sustainability team dashboards. Published plugins with CI/CD via GitHub Actions. Contributed to WordPress Blueprints and the 7.0 release. Manager of the [WordPress Global Community LinkedIn group ](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=WordPress%20Global%20Community&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Agroup%3A14028451&position=0)(16,500+ members). Recognized across 16 areas of the WordPress project.

### Support & Documentation Specialist — The Events Calendar, 2018–2020

- Managed the product knowledge base, authored technical documentation, trained staff on releases, and wrote release communications that translated technical changes into clear customer messaging.

### Computer Science & Business Educator — Multiple Institutions, 2006–2021

- Designed and delivered curricula at high schools, Franklin County CTC, Hagerstown Community College, and the Code Differently bootcamp (2020–2021). Taught HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Git, and WordPress through project-based learning, with PHP and JavaScript taught in parallel as two halves of how the web works.
- Used a flipped-classroom model: self-paced learning with in-person instruction reserved for remediation and projects. Bootcamp completion rate approximately 70%.
- Mentored students who presented at WordCamp Philadelphia. Pioneered WordPress as a classroom tool and LMS. Guided student interns building production websites.

## Open source leadership

- Co-founding board member, [The WPOCC](https://thewpocc.org/) (formerly The WP Community Collective) — sustainable funding models for open source contributors
- Contributor, [FAIR Package Manager](https://fair.pm/) (Linux Foundation) — cross-CMS translation and documentation infrastructure
- WordPress Training Team faculty member; Team Rep in 2015 and again 2020–2022. I was Training Team rep when [Learn.WordPress.org](https://learn.wordpress.org/) launched in 2020, which moved the project from no official training onto a pathway toward certification.
- 16+ years contributing to WordPress, recognized across 16 contribution areas

## Open source projects I built

Release testing and a set of tools for the open web.

- [wp-release-audit-method](https://github.com/courtneyr-dev/wp-release-audit-method) — a method, scripts, CI workflows, and assistant skills for testing WordPress Betas and RCs so a pass counts as evidence and a failure is actionable. Its build-comparison script found 243 files that WordPress 7.1 beta removed from the codebase without declaring them for deletion, meaning upgrading sites kept them indefinitely. A fresh install cannot surface that class of bug. I also maintain the official `beta-rc` blueprint in the WordPress blueprints collection.
- [Outpost](https://github.com/courtneyr-dev/outpost) — a mobile-first progressive web app composer for IndieWeb POSSE publishing, built on Micropub and IndieAuth so people can post to their own site from a phone without handing auth to a third party. PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHPCS, and Playwright in CI.
- [Post Kinds for IndieWeb in Block Themes](https://github.com/courtneyr-dev/post-kinds-for-indieweb/) — listen, watch, read, check-in, play, and follow post kinds for block themes.
- [Post Formats for Block Themes](https://github.com/courtneyr-dev/post-formats-for-block-themes/) — post format support and auto-detection for block themes.
- [Link Extension for XFN](https://github.com/courtneyr-dev/link-extension-for-xfn/) — XFN relationship markup, so links can say how you know someone.

The last four interoperate: Outpost detects the other three at runtime and adds composer modes as you activate them. I build these because I care about an open web where people own what they publish.

## Selected work

- [Software Transparency in SaaS Environments](https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/software-transparency-saas-environments-0) — CISA community white paper (contributor)
- [WordPress 7.0: A Provider-Agnostic AI Client Lands in Core](https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/wordpress-7-0-real-time-collaboration-arrives-in-core) — release coverage for GoDaddy
- [Supporting Open Source, Contributors, and WordPress](https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/supporting-open-source-contributors-and-wordpress) — GoDaddy’s open source funding announcement
- [How to Replace, Upload, and Manage Images in Airo AI Builder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXK9w7qUq5Y) — written and hosted for the Inside Airo AI Builder channel
- *Local and Small Business Owner’s Guide to LinkedIn* — author

## Education

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania — B.S., Business Education