Chris Blower
JavaScript Engineer at Jumpwire
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarChris Blower is a JavaScript engineer with 15 years’ experience building scalable, maintainable web and mobile systems and a strong entrepreneurial streak as Technical Director of Jumpwire and long-term contributor at Automattic. He combines front-end and back-end expertise—Node.js, Backbone, CoffeeScript, modern JS, and REST APIs—with practical ops skills (nginx, containers, backups) to ship reliable, secure products. At Automattic he contributed to Jetpack’s REST API, adding endpoints and data exposure for custom post types and menus to improve front-end integration for millions of WordPress sites. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Ruby, SQL, Python, Erlang, C family), he favors the right tool for the job and practices TDD/BDD and agile methods. Based in Liverpool, he’s motivated by technology that strengthens community communication and often prototypes product ideas end-to-end.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
javascript5
react3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
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:5 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the REST API functionality of the Jetpack plugin. Their work involved adding features for custom post types, custom menus, and post listings. They modified endpoints to expose data like `map_meta_cap` for front-end consumption and added supporting code to load theme contexts correctly.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
automattic-hiring/code-server
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Run VS Code on a remote server.
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
vscodevscode-extensionremote-servervs-code
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