Jason Crist
Internet Application Engineer Consultant
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Crist is an Internet Application Engineer Consultant with 16 years of experience designing and shipping high-traffic web applications, specializing in JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and WordPress. He has held architect and leadership roles at Tickets.com where his platforms served millions, and contributed significant theme and block-rendering enhancements to WordPress Core and Gutenberg while at Automattic. Jason builds accessible, cross-browser experiences and reusable developer tooling—having helped pioneer early WordPress Block Themes and the Create Block Theme plugin. He enjoys consulting with smaller teams to solve problems beyond their current expertise, applying a methodical approach that breaks complex challenges into manageable tasks. Based in Louisville, KY, he pairs a dual background in computer science and the arts to bring pragmatic technical solutions with an eye for design.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Music, Computer Science, Music at Campbellsville UniversityComputer Science, Art, Computer Science, Art at Western Kentucky University
Github Skills (9)
theme-development10
wordpress10
editors10
php10
blocks10
blockly10
editor10
gutenberg10
javascript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 16 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the Gutenberg block editor project, primarily focusing on enhancements related to theme customization. They implemented features such as adding border configuration options to themes, allowing theme-defined styling. The user also worked on allowing block attributes to be passed to the block renderer and on integrating registered fonts into the theme JSON. Their work demonstrates expertise in modifying core WordPress functionalities related to block rendering and theme settings.
wordpressgutenbergwordpress-plugin
Twenty-Bellows/taxonomy-query-filter
Dec 2024 - Apr 2026
A WordPress Block to filter query results.
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 4 months
wordpress-block
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