Jacopo Tomasone
Engineering Lead at Automattic
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJacopo Tomasone is an experienced engineering leader with 11 years building and shipping front-end and back-end features for WordPress.com and Simplenote across web and desktop. At Automattic he has progressed from senior engineer to Engineering Lead, currently managing teams focused on UX, code simplification, and the theme/Full Site Editing experience for a platform used by millions. He blends deep JavaScript and React expertise with practical PHP/MySQL and accessibility-aware frontend work, contributing notable UI improvements to high-profile open source projects like wp-calypso and Gutenberg. Known for refactoring complex components (Redux migrations, editor UI polish) and adding pragmatic backend endpoints, he pairs hands-on coding with people leadership. Based in Brighton, he brings a mix of product-focused engineering and long-standing open-source craftsmanship that quietly shapes users’ everyday editing experiences.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English
Github Skills (28)
editors10
json10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
css10
wordpress10
blocks10
user-interface10
editor10
redux10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:281 reviews, 462 commits, 1036 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jacopo primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the WordPress.com platform, specifically within the Full Site Editing (FSE) features. Their work focused on updating the UI of template blocks. The commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the user experience and visual aspects of the site editor by modifying the Site Title, Site Description, Navigation Menu block's look, and applying visual styling options. This involves implementing features such as text alignment, font size, text and background colors, and the use of RichText components.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
Automattic/themes
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 35 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jacopo's contributions primarily involve modifying and extending WordPress theme files, with a strong focus on Full Site Editing (FSE) features. They refactored styles, added support for editor palettes, and addressed styling issues within the editor, including cover blocks and navigation menus. The commits indicate work on theme versioning, and ensuring consistent presentation of FSE blocks. The user also made updates to theme files for homepage customizations.
wordpresswordpress-themeautomatticwordpress-themesthemes
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