Aaron Jorbin
Open Source Developer at WordPress
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Jorbin is an open source developer and engineering leader with 14+ years building publishing platforms, developer tooling, and reliable CMS experiences from newsroom-scale deployments to community-backed projects. He has been a long-standing contributor and release lead on WordPress—working across core, tooling, and the high-profile Gutenberg editor—and his work is partially supported via GitHub Sponsors. Aaron combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills (notably improving local dev environments like VVV and modernizing test/tooling stacks) with people leadership that scaled editorial engineering teams and instituted formal career ladders. He’s driven measurable product outcomes—launching brands, stabilizing CMS operations with extended uptime, and shipping data-driven features for restaurants and publishers—while retaining a user-first commitment to usable content and information systems. Based in Chicago, he blends public speaking and teaching with a pragmatic, research-informed approach to launching and maintaining software that helps make the web easier to publish to and share from.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Economics and Political Science, B.S., Economics and Political Science at Northern Michigan University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
wordpress10
gruntjs10
php10
gutenberg10
g10
nodejs10
vagrant10
devops10
ruby9
sass9
automations8
automation8
bash8
javascript8
testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
Aug 2013 - Oct 2016
An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on improving the provisioning process for the WordPress development environment. They added support for installing and updating Node.js, Grunt CLI, Ruby and Sass. They also updated the PHPUnit version to 5.x and ensured the proper installation of necessary packages, making the environment more modern and reliable for WordPress development.
vagrantwordpressvvvvarying-vagrant-vagrants
WordPress/gutenberg
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 13 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the WordPress Gutenberg editor project, focusing on backend and core functionality. Their work included adding checks for WordPress version compatibility, removing target attributes, and adding a filter for post-type-specific Gutenberg links. Further contributions involved fixing redirect issues in the Classic Editor, adding and testing new features, and preventing duplicate template queries. The user also integrated and used the `wp-deprecated` library.
wordpressgutenbergwordpress-plugin
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