Jake Morrison
Corporate Development Lead
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Morrison is a Corporate Development Lead at Automattic with 15 years of experience blending strategic M&A, venture investing, and hands-on software engineering. He leads acquisition and investment activity for a portfolio that includes WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr and Jetpack, reporting to the CFO of a multi-billion dollar, fully distributed company. Earlier roles span private equity and corporate development across cxLoyalty and Thames Valley Capital, giving him deep deal execution and international operations experience. Uncommonly for a corporate development leader, he also contributes code at Automattic—working on Gravatar and contributing full‑stack and back‑end improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Jetpack and WP-Job-Manager. He holds an MSc in Political Economy of Europe from LSE and a BA in International Studies & Journalism, combining analytical rigor with strong communication skills.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political ScienceBachelor of Arts (BA Hons), International Studies with Journalism, Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons), International Studies with Journalism at University of Buckingham
English
Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
front-end-development10
wordpress-plugin10
twitter-api10
testing9
json-api9
react8
css4
html4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/WP-Job-Manager
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
Manage job listings from the WordPress admin panel, and allow users to post jobs directly to your site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 95 reviews, 1478 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jake was a back-end developer focused on improving the core functionality of the WP Job Manager plugin. Their contributions included refactoring existing classes to utilize static single instances for support, moving the individual widgets to their own separate files for easier maintenance, and enhancing the admin panel with features like the ability to force a date input, showing the taglines in a tooltip. These changes suggest a focus on code optimization, plugin structure, and user interface improvements.
wordpress-admin
Automattic/jetpack
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 13 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to enhancing the Jetpack plugin's functionality and improving its user interface. They implemented features related to Twitter integration within shortcodes and widgets, adding partner IDs for tracking purposes. They also addressed bugs in the JSON API, specifically regarding handling of taxonomy and term descriptions. Furthermore, they updated various aspects of the plugin's settings and configuration for better user experience.
jetpacksecuritywordpressphpplugin
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