Andrew Jones
Founder at SoJu Web Development
Rutland City, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Jones is a seasoned full-stack developer and Linux systems administrator with over 15 years building fast, secure, and scalable web applications, and 11 years of focused professional experience. He specializes in WordPress theme and plugin development while also delivering modern Laravel backends and Vue.js front-ends, blending application-level engineering with hands-on LAMP/Nginx operations. As Product Lead for A2 Optimized and TurboHub lead architect, he’s driven measurable performance and reliability improvements for WordPress hosting platforms. A WordPress Core Contributor and longtime founder of SoJu Web Development, he pairs community-driven open-source work with practical product ownership. Based in Rutland, Vermont, he combines boutique agency experience and hosting-scale architecture, often tuning platforms end-to-end from PHP code to server configuration. Outside tech he’s shown entrepreneurial grit—founding initiatives from the Vermont Poker League to a regional web shop—bringing a pragmatic, user-focused perspective to engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Pioneer Computer School of Visual ArtsPoultney High SchoolCertificate of Undergraduate Studies Graphic Design, Certificate of Undergraduate Studies Graphic Design at Pioneer Company
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Github Skills (26)
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress9
aws9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
cli8
php8
wp-cli8
libcurl8
rest7
curl7
redirect6
htaccess6
metadata6
apache6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
a2hosting/a2-optimized-wp
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
A2 Optimized - WordPress Plugin
Contributions:6 reviews, 437 commits, 68 pushes in 5 years 6 months
wordpress-plugin
supersoju/block-referer-spam
Dec 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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