Chris Jean
Engineering Team Lead at Automattic
Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Jean is an engineering team lead with 15+ years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale WordPress ecosystems, full-stack web applications, and server infrastructure. He combines deep front-end skills in HTML/CSS/JavaScript with back-end expertise in Perl and PHP, and nearly two decades of Linux server administration across Apache/nginx and MySQL. At Automattic he led and refactored Jetpack contributions—adding privacy-respecting Google Analytics features and robust error handling—while previously architecting and migrating terabytes of customer data and core services at iThemes. Chris is comfortable across the stack and cloud, with a decade of AWS experience managing S3-hosted data, scaling, and load balancing, and a track record of running projects that serve over a million sites. Known for pragmatic tooling and shipping reliable deployment systems, he brings a systems-minded approach to developer experience and operational resilience.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of OklahomaBusiness Management, Business Management at University of Central Oklahoma
Github Skills (11)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
google-analytics10
testing9
js9
javascript9
phpunit7
nodejs4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 18 commits, 40 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on updating and refactoring code within the Jetpack plugin, removing deprecated methods, and cleaning up existing codebase. They implemented new features related to Google Analytics, specifically adding support for honoring the DNT header and implementing unit tests. Furthermore, the user contributed to the integration of connection error handling, React components and made several adjustments across different Jetpack packages and components. They also blacklisted a post type to be ignored during Sync.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
chrisbliss18/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades
Jul 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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