Jake Whiteley
Technical Director at Unseen Studio®
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJake Whiteley is a Technical Director with 11 years' experience leading web and design-focused engineering teams from Bristol, UK. He brings deep PHP, Laravel and WordPress expertise paired with creative front-end skills and a practical eye for SEO-driven solutions. At Unseen Studio he progressed from Lead Developer to Technical Director, combining hands-on coding with architectural and delivery responsibilities. An active open-source contributor, he has improved code quality and standards in widely used WordPress tooling such as the wp-bootstrap navwalker. His background in professional musicianship informs a collaborative, detail-oriented approach and a knack for crafting polished digital experiences. Jake is known for blending pragmatic engineering discipline with design sensibility to deliver maintainable, user-focused web products.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Professional Musicianship, BA (Hons) Professional Musicianship at University of Sussex
Stackoverflow
505reputation
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11answers
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Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
php10
bootstra10
bootstrap10
navigation-drawer9
navigationview9
menu9
navigationbar9
phaser-framework6
foreach6
javascript6
html5-canvas6
webscraping6
permalinks6
custom-post-type6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wp-bootstrap/wp-bootstrap-navwalker
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
A custom WordPress nav walker class to fully implement the Twitter Bootstrap 4.0+ navigation style (v3-branch available for Bootstrap 3) in a custom theme using the WordPress built in menu manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on improving the code quality and adhering to coding standards within the WordPress navigation walker class. Their contributions include adding schema markup to the navigation, making manual edits to address phpcs (PHP Code Sniffer) issues, applying additional code standards fixes, and implementing a Yoda condition for improved code readability. The user also removed deprecated short array syntax and cleaned up the documentation by removing an unnecessary 'type' declaration.
menumenu-managerbootstrap-4navigationcustom-theme
jakewhiteley/php-sets
May 2016 - Jan 2020
A implementation of a Java-like Set data structure for PHP. A Set allows storage of any value without duplicates which can be iterated in insertion order.
Contributions:5 releases, 56 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 8 months
data-setinsertionphpfeelingbackblaze
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