Hello! Welcome to my homepage. I’m Mahangu Weerasinghe, and I am a Data Engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce and Tumblr.
I’ve been at Automattic for 10 years and have been using WordPress since version 0.70. I truly believe that WordPress has and will continue to play an instrumental role in keeping the web free and open. I’m a firm believer in Open Source and know that it is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. In my free time, I maintain some Debian packages as a member of the Debian Python Team. I also contribute to Meltano when possible and maintain extractors like tap-wordpress-org and tap-wordpress.
I have childhood onset fluency disorder, aka stuttering, and I’ve written about my experience with this on HeroPress, and getspeak.in. I’m always happy to talk about my stuttering, so please drop me a line if you’d like to chat.