Chris Jones
Senior Software Engineering Manager at HotPads
Fullerton, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Jones is a senior software engineering manager with over two decades of web development and management experience, currently leading CMS and homepage engineering at Zillow from Fullerton, CA. He specializes in cross-platform integrations, building custom CMS solutions that map WordPress blocks to internal React components and Next.js rendering, and has driven revenue-impacting integrations like Salesforce forms that enabled $6M+ ARR. A hands-on leader, Chris has a track record of mentoring engineers, designing pragmatic architectures for content at scale (including "next best action" messaging), and improving CI and developer workflows. Known for fostering cross-team collaboration, he also brings a creative edge—he’s a 14-time Hack Week winner who builds practical tooling ranging from Raspberry Pi kiosks to custom page builders that empower marketing and experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
21reputation
4kreached
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Github Skills (53)
gravatar10
plugin9
seo9
wordpress9
yoast9
opengraph9
xml-sitemap9
wordpress-plugin8
metadata8
css8
okta7
php7
ruby-on-rails6
advanced-custom-fields6
chartkick6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
heyjones/wpbp
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 1 year 7 months
wordpress-theme-boilerplateboilerplatewordpresswordpress-themewordpress-boilerplate
heyjones/intensionusa
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:68 commits in 2 months
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