Jefferson Rabb
Chief Product Officer at Business Insider
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJefferson Rabb is a product and engineering leader with a decade of experience building digital news and publishing platforms, now serving as Chief Product Officer at Business Insider. He previously scaled product and engineering teams at The Atlantic, rising from VP of Engineering to SVP and CPO, and led Automattic’s Newspack team to improve WordPress-based publishing for newsrooms. A founder and former CTO of The Atavist, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on backend development—his open-source contributions include enhancing Automattic’s widely used Jetpack plugin by adding and hardening REST API support for map integrations. Based in New York, he blends editorial product sensitivity with robust technical stewardship, prioritizing reliable APIs and data-driven product decisions. Trained in music and politics at Oberlin, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that informs user-centric, narrative-driven product strategies.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Music Politics, Bachelor's degree Music Politics at Oberlin College
Github Skills (10)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
map-box10
api-design10
mapbox-gl10
plugin10
google-map9
google-maps9
phpcs8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 35 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jefferson's primary focus was on enhancing the Jetpack plugin's functionality by implementing and refining REST API endpoints. They introduced a REST API to manage and validate Google Maps and Mapbox API keys. The user refactored existing code to use Jetpack's options management system, improved API key validation, and standardized API responses. Their work also included general code formatting improvements.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
Atavist/developer
Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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