Congratulations to Alex also known as Viper007Bond, creator of Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin and major contributor to the oEmbed feature introduced in WordPress 2.9. Alex has been working for Automattic through contract work for a few months and today, he has announced that he’s become a full-time employee. Another piece of solid talent picked up by the company. I imagine if I ever had the chance to attend an Automattic retreat, my head would explode from all the geekiness in such close proximity.