Sam Hotchkiss
Ponderer at Technonymous
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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RockstarSam Hotchkiss is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building product-focused infrastructure and communities across web, civic tech, and blockchain. He founded and scaled multiple startups—from BruteProtect/Parka (acquired by Automattic) to Reconnect (a public-benefit tech deployed across 38 states) and Flip.xyz (DeFi/NFT analytics)—and led Jetpack and Akismet efforts at Automattic as Jetpack Flight Director. A hands-on backend developer and open-source contributor, his commits improved Jetpack’s admin and alpha settings used by millions of WordPress sites. Equally comfortable in product, operations, and hardware, he once built production-tracking systems that generated over $5M/year in savings for a manufacturer. Based in Santa Fe and now Ponderer at Technonymous, he combines technical depth with a storyteller’s instinct—he’s also the Chief Storyteller at Cloudberry Tales—toward community-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
wordpress-plugins10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
foursquare6
javascript4
javascripts4
html4
css3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Dec 2014 - Jan 2018
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 releases, 1 review, 743 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sam's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Jetpack Alpha settings within the `automattic/jetpack` repository, a WordPress plugin. They implemented changes to the alpha settings admin page, introducing features such as auto-redirects and "press this" functionality, while also addressing design and logic concerns. The contributions included modifications to PHP files related to the Jetpack alpha functionality and the underlying framework.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
samhotchkiss/pingcatcher
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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