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Tony Prokop
Résumé
Live2022 - nowFull-stack engineer, Sr. StaffWP Engine

WP Engine

Managed WordPress hosting company based in Austin, TX

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WP Engine homepage with the managed hosting pitch, dashboard previews and the Walter AI agent chat
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100%page load performance improvement
45%drop in support chat volume
12engineering teams led on a project

01 / overview

The project

I've been working on WP Engine's User Portal since 2022. WP Engine customers use this application to host and manage their WordPress sites. I've been on 3 teams and many different projects over the years, the big ones are highlighted below.

02 / my contribution

What I did

  1. 01Led a frontend SPA refactor spanning 12 engineering teams resulting in a 100% improvement to page load performance.
  2. 02Built and managed core API infrastructure on GCP, scaling to meet the demand of agentic workloads upon release of the WP Engine MCP.
  3. 03Shipped an AI chatbot that reduced overall support chat volume by 45%.
  4. 04Maintained a component library used daily by 50+ engineers.

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