Damon Cook
City of Glens Falls, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDamon Cook is a web-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience crafting pixel-perfect websites and developer-friendly WordPress themes. Based in Glens Falls, NY, he blends front-end styling chops with build-tool fluency—having contributed Sassdoc, Gulp, and theme refactors to a popular starter theme at WebDevStudios. He co-founded Upstate New York’s largest WordPress meetup and helped launch WordCamp Saratoga, demonstrating a commitment to community education and technology training. Damon’s work emphasizes purposeful web experiences that balance design detail and practical build processes, and his Communication Theory & Design background informs a user-centered approach to development. He’s as comfortable delivering hands-on theme builds as he is consulting and training teams to adopt better workflows.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Communication Theory & Design, Bachelor of Arts, Communication Theory & Design at Skidmore College
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Github Skills (16)
css10
wordpress10
sass10
gulp10
javascript10
starter-kit10
scs10
wordpress-themes10
sc10
php9
google-chrome6
forms6
checkbox6
custom-post-type6
gutenberg3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/wd_s
Aug 2014 - Nov 2016
A starter theme from WebDevStudios.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 30 PRs, 90 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damon primarily contributed to the theme's build and styling processes, integrating Sassdoc for documentation. They added Sassdoc configuration, including documentation source files and sorting. Furthermore, the user refactored the menu styling and utilized a mixin for margin-padding resets. They also updated the theme's build processes including updating font awesome script and adding updated Gulp config files and tasks.
tailwindcsswordpress-scriptswordpressjavascriptphp
colorful-tones/gutenberg
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Contributions:1 PR, 114 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year 2 months
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