Jeff Stieler is a founding engineer and seasoned full-stack developer with 17 years of experience building high-throughput SaaS and e-commerce platforms. He’s led teams and shipped large features at Automattic—designing and scaling WooCommerce Shipping and admin tooling—and most recently helped expand access to retirement benefits as a senior engineer at Human Interest. Comfortable across Node.js, React, background job systems, and accessibility-first front ends, he blends product-focused engineering with performance and security improvements. An active contributor to prominent open-source projects like Jetpack, he’s skilled at integrating third-party services and optimizing install flows for complex plugins. Based in Park City, UT, Jeff pairs enterprise-scale execution with hands-on implementation and a knack for turning data-heavy workflows into reliable, test-covered systems.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at University of Central Florida
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on integrating and improving the WooCommerce Services plugin within the Jetpack ecosystem. Their contributions included implementing the initial setup for installing WooCommerce Hosted Services, which involved creating the necessary classes, adding UI elements, and handling install flows. They also refactored code, optimized existing functionalities, and updated the messaging to improve the user experience. These tasks also included addressing security concerns and improving performance with efficiency-focused code changes.
drop-in to abstract ui to select multiple posts and put ids into an input field
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
input-fielddrop-inidsselect-multiplefield
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