Jacob Ransom
Senior Software Engineer at Matomo
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Ransom is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently contributing to the open-source Matomo analytics platform while based in Hamilton, New Zealand. He brings deep PHP expertise from multi-year roles at ApplicantPro and Matomo, pairing backend reliability with UI improvements and practical fixes like timezone/date handling and deprecation cleanups. Comfortable across the stack, Jacob has migrated his workflow to Linux as his primary OS and routinely practices server administration in his spare time. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has a track record of learning what’s needed to deliver features and fixes that matter in production. His open-source contributions to Matomo show an eye for user-facing polish as well as backend accuracy—helping a privacy-focused analytics project used worldwide. Relocating with his family to Aotearoa, he’s also channeling curiosity into becoming more at home in Kiwi life while continuing to tinker with personal web projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at BYU-IdahoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems and CS Minor, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems and CS Minor at Eastern New Mexico University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
back-end-development10
web-analytics10
php10
vue10
analytics9
front-end-development9
privacy9
database8
database-administration8
databases8
administrator8
testing8
mysql8
admin8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matomo-org/matomo
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 10 commits, 37 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily worked on enhancing the Matomo web analytics platform, focusing on improvements to the user interface and backend functionality. Contributions include adding features to exclude specific sites from the site selector, updating the text and links in the Matomo Help Centre, and addressing PHP and deprecation warnings and errors. They also fixed issues related to timezones and date handling and improved the accuracy of various methods.
analyticspiwikcollectmatomomysql
innocraft/plugin-JsTrackerForceAsync
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Forces the Matomo JavaScript Tracker to always load asynchronous when embedding the Tracking Code via HTTP API automatically in your website.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 6 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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