Devin Walker
Artistic Director Of Jetpack at Automattic
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevin Walker is a product-focused software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building widely used WordPress tools and scaling open-source businesses. As founder and former CEO of Impress.org he created GiveWP—the top donation plugin whose code and UX improvements are powering millions of sites and have earned widespread press and millions of downloads. Now Artistic Director of Jetpack at Automattic, he blends creative direction with technical fluency to reshape product experience, brand, and cross-functional collaboration for one of WordPress’s most influential plugins. His background spans hands-on PHP engineering (notably refactoring GiveWP for better international character support) to executive roles driving product, go-to-market, and team growth across startups and platform companies. A committed open-source advocate, Devin has organized community events, contributed code, and fostered groups like Advanced WordPress and WordPress for Nonprofits. Based in San Diego, he balances strategy and craftsmanship while staying engaged in travel, music, and golf.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
540reputation
174kreached
19answers
1question
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Github Skills (19)
git10
refactor10
php10
version-control10
refactoring10
apidoc9
wordpress9
api9
architectural-patterns8
design-patterns8
html6
custom-post-type6
taxonomy-terms6
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
impress-org/givewp
Feb 2015 - Jul 2022
GiveWP - The #1 Donation Plugin for WordPress. Easily accept donations and fundraise using your WordPress website.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 releases, 27 reviews, 1907 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Devin primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the codebase by merging branches, generating new POT files, and improving error descriptions. The contributions included updating the code to support Latin characters for donations. The code changes also involved improving function names and fixing existing issues in multiple PHP files, including admin settings and a specific PHP class.
ecommerceaccept-donationswordpressphpwordpress-site
DevinWalker/Easy-Digital-Downloads
May 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:104 pushes, 26 branches, 39 tags in 2 years 3 months
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