Jason Moon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJason Moon is a seasoned full-stack engineer and manager with 13 years building web applications across AI, analytics, e-commerce, and search, most recently leading teams at Automattic. He combines hands-on frontend and backend craft—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Jetpack and WordPress.com—with people leadership experience as an engineering manager. Jason has shipped features from interactive search experiences to visitor-targeted UI blocks and has driven improvements in performance, linting, and developer workflows. Comfortable at the intersection of product and platform, he brings a practical, metrics-minded approach to experimentation and analytics. Based in Seattle and grounded in a Berkeley engineering background, he often pairs technical ownership with DevOps and code-quality improvements that quietly reduce friction for teams.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
English, Korean
Github Skills (12)
calypso10
wordpress10
i18n-js10
php10
i18next10
javascript10
react10
wordpress-plugin10
html9
css9
eslint9
redux8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:588 reviews, 451 commits, 519 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily worked on implementing and improving the user interface components and features within the WordPress.com platform. They contributed to the Jetpack Search project by adding components to display search results, including adding a settings toggle and enabling an instant search experience. The user also contributed to improving the performance setting page and made updates to the reader lists feature, as well as the annual highlights section.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
Automattic/jetpack
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:813 reviews, 234 commits, 449 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the "Repeat Visitor" block, implementing frontend and backend functionalities. They registered a new block and its associated assets, enabling the inner block visibility control based on a visitor's view count. They also fixed bugs related to threshold reset and made improvements to input fields, modifying Javascript and PHP code. Furthermore, the user simplified the ESLint configuration and streamlined linting and pre-commit hooks, indicating DevOps and code quality involvement.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
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