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Jason Caldwell

VP of Growth Engineering at Automattic

@jaswrks Maine, USA joined Mar 2017

jaswrks.com github.com/jaswrks Slack: @jaswrks
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    Bio

    [‘Tactical Bracket Typer @ Automattic’] … husband • father • hacker • Alaskan. I’m a senior software engineer, small business owner, and team leader. I build web-based applications with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, and other languages.

    Interests

    PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, jQuery, package managers.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I fell in love with WordPress back in 2009. I created several themes and plugins. Some friends joined me and together we started a business and sold them commercially (e.g., s2Member, Comet Cache, and others). Over the years my skills improved, as did my familiarity with the WordPress codebase.

    Badges

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    Core Contributor '18 Meta Contributor '21

    Current Job

    VP of Growth Engineering
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

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    Team focus

    Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 5.6
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2021
    May 05 Wed · 17:38
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [10951] on Meta SVN:
    Main Theme: Add 40% of the Web page template.
    October 2020
    Oct 24 Sat · 22:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [49303] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API, XML-RPC: Synchronise empty comment content checks.
    December 2018
    Dec 14 Fri · 05:11
    Core high
    Mentioned in [44165] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Merge some minor bug fixes.
    October 2018
    Oct 24 Wed · 06:45
    Core high
    Mentioned in [43815] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Minor bug fixes.
    May 2018
    May 23 Wed · 10:04
    Core high
    Mentioned in [43309] on WordPress SVN:
    Once upon a midnight dreary, while I coded, weak and weary,
    February 2018
    Feb 03 Sat · 23:59
    Core med
    Created ticket #43224 on Core Trac:
    Extract `$utf8_pcre` from `wp_check_invalid_utf8()` into a separate ...
    January 2018
    Jan 29 Mon · 16:28
    Core med
    Created ticket #43177 on Core Trac:
    REST API allows empty comments containing only whitespace
    December 2017
    Dec 30 Sat · 20:48
    Core high
    Mentioned in [42422] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Return the proper status code for failed permission callbacks in WP_REST_Server->dispatch().
    Dec 30 Sat · 20:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [42421] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Return the proper status code for failed permission callbacks in `WP_REST_Server->dispatch()`.
    Dec 07 Thu · 14:00
    Core med
    Created ticket #42828 on Core Trac:
    Hard-coded 403 status in REST response should use ...