Ballio Chan
Founder at MakeShft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBallio Chan is a creative founder and design-led product strategist with 15 years of experience crafting brand, motion, and digital experiences for clients like ESPN, Nickelodeon, and Under Armour. Former creative lead at Automattic and WordPress.com, he drove a homepage redesign that measurably boosted conversions and led omnichannel campaigns that reached tens of millions of impressions. He now runs MakeShft and TheKnow, blending brand systems, UX, and bespoke algorithms (a Pearson-based taste-matching engine) to reinvent discovery and retail touchpoints. Ballio pairs hands-on craft—motion, UI, and generative art—with team leadership and product ownership, shipping work from concept through launch. Known for energizing teams, quick ideation, and an appetite for experimentation, he also monetizes his generative art practice through prints and apparel. Based in the Bay Area, he combines agency rigor with startup grit to solve tricky creative-product problems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Advertising/Multimedia Design, BA Advertising/Multimedia Design at Pepperdine University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
plugin10
gutenberg9
redux9
react9
php9
js9
nodejs9
javascript8
jetpack8
security7
palette2
color-palette1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2017 - May 2020
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Contributions:5 comments in 2 years 9 months
wordpressgutenbergwordpress-plugin
Automattic/jetpack
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
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.
Contributions:4 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 4 months
jetpacksecuritywordpressphpplugin
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