Jason Lemay
Senior Software Developer (SDE4) at GoDaddy
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Lemay is a Senior Software Developer (SDE4) based in Quebec with five years of professional engineering experience and a decade-plus history building web products and teams. He currently helps power GoDaddy’s managed WordPress platform and contributes front-end improvements to the CoBlocks Gutenberg project, blending React/Node work with WordPress, accessibility, and UX refinement. Jason’s background spans startups and agencies where he led front-end engineering, product-oriented integrations, and even ran a high-traffic site and newsletter system as a CTO/partner. He has a strong focus on design processes, ergonomics, and standards-driven front-end development, backed by formal training in web accessibility. Colleagues value him for shipping pragmatic UI improvements—often behind the scenes in CSS/JS build and testing pipelines—that make large-scale WordPress experiences more usable and inclusive.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Web Accessibility course, Web Accessibility course at École d'optométrie de l'Université de MontréalDiplôme d'études collégiales, Techniques d'intégration multimédia, Diplôme d'études collégiales, Techniques d'intégration multimédia at Cégep de Sainte-Foy
French, English
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
wordpress10
javascript10
gutenberg10
react10
testing9
accessibility9
open-source8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
godaddy-wordpress/coblocks
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
A suite of professional page building content blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 58 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress Gutenberg block editor, focusing on enhancing the CoBlocks plugin. Their work included adding animation controls, styling and accessibility improvements to existing blocks like the FAQ and Testimonials blocks, as well as improving the user interface of the Layout Selector. They also added new blocks and improved on the existing ones. This also included significant updates to the plugin's CSS and JavaScript code, as well as enhancements to the build and testing processes.
block-editorprofessionalgutenberg-blockwordpresswordpress-gutenberg
godaddy-wordpress/coblocks-icons
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Shared Component that includes all icons used by the CoBlocks plugin.
Contributions:9 reviews, 40 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
shared-componenticons
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