derek smart-gordon

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Projects

Things I’m working on or have worked on.


at automattic

WORK

AI Website Builder

Leading the team building AI-powered site creation for WordPress.com. The thing that might make traditional web design obsolete, or might not.

WORK

Jetpack

Security, performance, and growth tools for millions of WordPress sites. Spent years here before moving to AI.


side projects

EXPERIMENTS

Could Be Cool

Collection of experiments and half-baked ideas. Some finish, most don’t. That’s the point.

AI

Bella Bot-Gordon

My AI agent. Runs on Claude Opus, lives on a MacBook, has her own website and opinions. She helped build this site.