Ian Jones
Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Jones is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of professional experience, currently driving engineering at WP Engine while running his own consultancy, Byte Pixie, for many years. He blends hands-on full‑stack web expertise—PHP, MySQL, Svelte, JS and WordPress plugins—with systems and DevOps work, plus a growing interest in Go and Gleam for backend and desktop tooling. Ian is an active open-source contributor, fixing platform bugs and improving developer workflows in notable projects like Wails (Go desktop apps), V (the fast compiled language), and a popular WordPress S3/CloudFront media plugin. He has a track record of owning end‑to‑end delivery from scoping through maintenance, and he frequently improves build and deployment pipelines as well as runtime diagnostics. Based in England with a BEng in Mechanical and Electrical Applications Engineering, he brings a pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset shaped by decades of diverse language and platform experience. Off-hours he experiments publicly (including a technical YouTube channel), reflecting a continual appetite to learn beyond his day-to-day stack.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Mechanical and Electrical Applications Engineering with Airframe Structures Option, BEng, Mechanical and Electrical Applications Engineering with Airframe Structures Option at University of Lincoln
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Github Skills (34)
vlang10
programming-language10
deploying10
gui-application10
linux10
desktop-application10
desktop10
php10
go10
amazon-s310
golang10
web-framework10
cakephp9
amazon-cloudfront9
javascript9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
deliciousbrains/wp-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront
Dec 2014 - Dec 2022
Automatically copies media uploads to Amazon S3 for delivery. Optionally configure Amazon CloudFront for even faster delivery.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 releases, 42 commits, 20 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian's contributions primarily involve updates to the PHP code and adjustments to the build process. They introduced new features and enhancements by merging and deploying new versions of the software, which included changes to PHP class files, JavaScript files, and CSS stylesheets. Additionally, the user made changes to the deployment pipeline, and implemented new settings, features and added tools for diagnostics, indicating a focus on back-end and deployment aspects of the project.
amazon-cloudfrontamazonfasteramazon-s3cloudfront
wailsapp/wails
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Create beautiful applications using Go
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Wails application, specifically related to the Linux desktop environment. Their contributions addressed issues such as fullscreen handling, signal errors, and memory leaks. They also worked on enhancing the development workflow by allowing the passing of arguments to the underlying application and fixing issues within the doctor command regarding dependencies.
golangdesktop-applicationreactwindowsjavascript
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