Jayson Basañes
Software Engineer at Finch Care
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolJayson Basañes is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 15 years of experience shipping 20+ iOS and Android apps and scaling teams to deliver global mobile and web releases. He blends hands-on expertise in Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript and backend systems with a track record of improving stability, implementing clean architecture, and automating workflows to shorten release cycles. As a former co-founder and CTO, he built high-performance Redis-backed systems and web-queue-worker architectures that dramatically cut latency and deployment time, and later led engineering at Automattic where he stabilized teams, refined quality processes, and drove product-focused roadmaps. He’s an advocate for accessibility and measurable outcomes—contributing to prominent open-source projects like WordPress and WooCommerce with accessibility and REST API improvements. Known for coaching engineering leads, setting clear expectations, and fostering ownership, he reliably turns ambiguous challenges into predictable delivery. Based in Calgary, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep mobile and devops chops, and maintains an active open-source presence on GitHub and a technical blog.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at AMA University
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Github Skills (35)
accessibility10
woocommerce10
editors10
ios10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
html-editor10
ui-design10
editor10
xcode10
php10
notification-center10
android10
swift10
rest-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 reviews, 597 commits, 166 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jayson primarily worked on the iOS WordPress application, replacing outdated alert functionalities and improving the user experience. They addressed build warnings, enhanced the user interface, and fixed several bugs related to the presentation and handling of user notices, including those related to network connectivity and the editor. Further contributions included refinements to the auto-upload system, handling of media and fixes to the reader and page views.
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wordpress-mobile/AztecEditor-iOS
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
A reusable native iOS visual HTML text editor component.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jayson primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility features of the "More" button within the iOS Aztec editor component. Their contributions involved modifying the accessibility traits, labels, and overall behavior of the button to improve user experience, particularly for VoiceOver users. The user also moved accessibility-related code to the initializer and removed redundant code, streamlining the implementation. Furthermore, the user merged branches and updated demo code for the iOS editor.
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