Jason Cosper
Principal Engineer at Gag Me With a Chainsaw
Bakersfield, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Cosper is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and optimizing WordPress at scale for hosting platforms and enterprise clients. He builds custom plugins, themes, and automation tools while tuning Linux/Nginx/MySQL/Redis stacks to improve performance and reliability—projects that have cut page loads by ~43% and eliminated multi-gigabyte database bloat. Jason has led Level 3 support teams, defined SLOs and product requirements, and designed resilient caching and API proxy layers with cache-stampede prevention and SSRF mitigation. He pairs deep technical troubleshooting with developer advocacy and documentation, mentoring SME-level engineers and shaping platform direction at companies like WP Engine, Liquid Web, and DreamHost. Based in Bakersfield, he balances client work with community-focused projects—producing a horror podcast and volunteering web support and food service for unhoused neighbors—revealing a pragmatic, service-oriented approach beyond code.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Theatre Arts, Theatre Arts at Cerritos College
English
Github Skills (134)
wordpress10
letter10
plugin10
updating10
passwords10
wordpress-plugin10
jetpack9
elasticpress9
authentication9
security9
sms9
traffic9
php9
react9
cookie9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
liquidweb/woocommerce-custom-thank-you
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 8 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
boogah/noneroll
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Gmail archive low priority emails and send daily summary a la unroll.me
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
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