Riad is a software engineer at Automattic, Core Contributor, Lead developer of the WordPress Gutenberg project, Editor Release lead for multiple WordPress version including WordPress 6.5.

Riad works on the Gutenberg project full time, contributing to several areas from the UI to the extensibility APIs and leading some of the phase 3 projects of WordPress.

He lives between Algeria and Spain and spend his spare time with Family, mostly on Tennis courts.