Frankie Jarrett
Senior Software Development Manager at GoDaddy
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolFrankie Jarrett is a Senior Software Development Manager with 12 years of engineering leadership experience, currently overseeing hosting control panel UI and WordPress product teams at GoDaddy. He has led both small agile teams and large-scale organizations that support millions of users, with over a decade of remote leadership experience. Frankie blends hands-on coding with strategic hiring—having interviewed hundreds of engineers—and emphasizes user-driven architecture decisions informed by data. As an active open-source contributor, he improved the internationalization pipeline for the popular CoBlocks WordPress plugin, migrating i18n from PO to a JSON-based system. Known for giving teams autonomy while rolling up his sleeves to ship, he leads with integrity, authenticity, and an appetite for solving thorny product and platform problems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Business Management, Business Marketing, Business Management, Business Marketing at Missouri Western State UniversityAutomotive Technology, Automotive Technology at Hillyard Technical Center
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
rails-i18n10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
ember-i18n10
gutenberg10
i18n-js10
build-process10
json9
php9
front-end-development8
internet-explorer6
react-navigation-v56
dns6
htaccess6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
godaddy-wordpress/coblocks
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
A suite of professional page building content blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 49 commits, 18 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Frankie's primary focus appears to be on improving the internationalization (i18n) of the CoBlocks WordPress plugin, which included migrating from PO files to a JSON-based system. They made significant changes to the build process, including the creation of new scripts for converting between POT and JSON formats. Additionally, the user corrected icon keywords and various front-end components, and also addressed typos and performed general code cleanups.
block-editorprofessionalgutenberg-blockwordpresswordpress-gutenberg
frankiejarrett/expire-passwords
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Require certain users to change their passwords on a regular basis.
Contributions:93 commits, 5 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 year 11 months
passwordsrequirepassword-generatorregularpassword
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