Erick Hitter
Senior Software Engineer at Life Safety Inspection Vault
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolErick Hitter is a Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years building high-traffic WordPress platforms and developer tooling for media and enterprise clients, currently focused on Life Safety Inspection Vault and running his long-standing web consultancy. He has deep expertise in WordPress VIP-scale development—contributing backend improvements to the popular Co-Authors Plus plugin and leading projects that blend PHP, Node.js, and Go to solve platform reliability issues like WP-Cron. Erick has steered design system rollouts and CI/CD modernizations at Penske Media, improving performance for marquee sites such as Variety and Rolling Stone, and he champions software-enforced standards and developer experience. A former accountant with an MS in Accounting & Taxation, he brings uncommon rigor around auditability and process to engineering problems, plus a background in audio and electrical engineering that informs pragmatic, systems-minded solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Accounting & Taxation, MS Accounting & Taxation at University of Hartford
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Github Skills (10)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
phpunit8
ontology6
owl-api6
protege6
reasoning6
reasoner6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/co-authors-plus
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Multiple bylines and Guest Authors for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Erick primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the WordPress plugin, focusing on REST API endpoints. Their work involved modifying existing endpoints, updating permissions callbacks, and protecting read-only endpoints. They also addressed compatibility issues and fixed tests related to the REST API, enhancing the plugin's functionality.
wordpresswordpress-pluginwpvip-plugin
penske-media-corp/github-workflows-wordpress
Aug 2022 - Nov 2025
Reusable GitHub Actions workflows for WordPress themes and plugins.
Contributions:61 reviews, 49 PRs, 273 pushes in 3 years 4 months
githubaction-workflowwordpress-themes
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