Jason Chafin
Senior Web Developer at University of California, Santa Cruz
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Chafin is a Senior Web Developer with 11 years of professional web experience and a decade-long tenure building and maintaining WordPress-driven sites for UC Santa Cruz Communications & Marketing. He combines practical front-end skills (PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript) with project and client-facing experience from running his own consultancy, Blackbird Consulting. Comfortable across many frameworks, he excels at taking projects from concept to production and translating institutional needs into accessible, maintainable web systems. His background in environmental planning and technical writing gives him a rare strength in organizing complex content and regulatory workflows for web audiences. Based in California, he pairs institutional web governance experience with entrepreneurial agility to deliver polished, user-focused digital properties.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MES, Environmental Studies, MES, Environmental Studies at The Evergreen State CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Spanish, English
Github Skills (36)
underscores10
advanced-custom-fields10
listjs10
wordpress-themes9
jquery9
ruby9
dock9
wordpress9
gnome-shell9
sass9
wordpress-plugin9
gnome9
campus9
jekyll9
php8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ucsc/ucsc-content-blocks
Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
A collection of WordPress blocks for UC Santa Cruz.
Contributions:2 releases, 54 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 3 months
wordpress-blockgutenberggutenberg-blocksgutenberg-pluginwordpress
Herm71/jekyll-yelapafun
Nov 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 2 months
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