Jason Grimes
Software Engineer
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJason Grimes is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience blending hands-on development, business analysis, and project leadership from Memphis, Tennessee. He excels at translating complex requirements into secure, maintainable code and has a meticulous eye for quality—evident in his contributions to the widely used WordPress Coding Standards and his WordPoints plugin work. Comfortable leading teams and facilitating cross-functional communication, he pairs technical depth with pragmatic project management. A perfectionist programmer by nature, he focuses on code beauty and security while staying actively engaged in open-source communities.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science in Business, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science in Business, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Murray State University
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Github Skills (18)
wordpress10
code-standards10
enforcement10
coding-conventions10
php10
coding-style10
php-codesniffer10
mysql9
xss9
back-end-development8
menu6
css-selectors6
css6
travis-ci6
codeception6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards
Dec 2013 - Sep 2018
PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) to enforce WordPress coding conventions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 476 commits, 347 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the WordPress Coding Standards project by modifying existing code and adding new features related to code style enforcement. Their work included adding and sorting sanitization functions within the XSS sniff, fixing erroneous file header text and improving the detection of code constructs in several sniffs. They also improved the performance of the array declaration sniff and the function restriction sniffs.
rulesetcoding-conventionswordpressphpphp-codesniffer-rules
WordPoints/module-uninstall-tester
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 11 months
wordpresstestingphpwordpointsinstall-module
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