Jer Clarke
Social Design And Technical Lead at Global Voices Online
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJer Clarke is a Social Design and Technical Lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining WordPress-driven news networks, serving as the longtime "Code Unicorn" for Global Voices since 2006. They combine front-end and back-end expertise—PHP, HTML/CSS, JS—and practical ops experience with Apache/Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB and Linux to run sites and integrations across Google Apps, Trello and CiviCRM. A committed open-web practitioner, Jer contributes to notable projects like Automattic’s Edit Flow, improving editorial workflows and notification UX. Based in Pointe-Claire, Montreal, they pair deep technical craft with community-centered design and long-term stewardship of multilingual, mission-driven publishing platforms.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Communications, BA, Communications at Concordia University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
wordpress10
css10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
notification9
jquery8
back-end-development7
front-end-development7
spam-prevention6
e-mail6
phpunit6
debugging6
codeception6
visual-studio-code6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/Edit-Flow
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
WordPress plugin to accelerate your editorial workflow
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 55 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jer primarily contributed to the WordPress plugin's frontend and backend functionality. They addressed bugs in initialization, removed unnecessary CSS styling, and added features for editorial comments, particularly related to user notifications. Their work involved modifying CSS, JavaScript, and PHP files, including updates to the notification system and the user interface for editorial comments. The user focused on improving the user experience and fixing existing issues in the plugin's modules.
wordpresseditorialwordpress-pluginaccelerateworkflow
globalvoices/gv-lenguas-child-theme
Apr 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 11 months
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