Jerry Jones
JavaScript Engineer at Automattic
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJerry Jones is a JavaScript engineer and accessibility advocate with a decade of experience building user-focused front ends for WordPress and publishing platforms. Currently at Automattic, he contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Gutenberg and Jetpack, improving UI, media players, and accessibility for millions of WordPress users. He’s led web teams and end-to-end projects—from migrating Texas Monthly’s properties and adding AMP to designing podcast player UIs—bringing a mix of product design, front-end engineering, and hiring experience. Comfortable writing tests, managing focus/focus-management in complex UIs, and shaping hiring processes, he often fills leadership and mentorship roles. Based in Missouri, he combines a designer’s eye with deep practical experience in WordPress, Vue, and performance-minded front-end engineering.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MA, English, Elementary Education, MA, English, Elementary Education at Truman State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
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e2e-testing10
javascript10
e2e-test10
wordpress10
css10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
html10
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react10
testing9
plugin9
e2e9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
a11yproject/a11yproject.com
Aug 2015 - Jul 2019
The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 20 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily focused on front-end development, specifically improving the user interface and accessibility of the A11Y Project website. Their contributions included cleaning up and styling the header and footer, starting the basic typography for the homepage, and adjusting layout elements. They also addressed semantics, improving the structure of the HTML for better accessibility and implemented modifications for the patterns and resources pages, with an emphasis on enhancing the user experience.
effortinclusive-designeleventydigital-accessibilityuser-experience
WordPress/gutenberg
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:522 reviews, 14 commits, 357 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Gutenberg block editor. They implemented features related to the navigation block, including improvements to link handling, suggestions, and appender visibility. Additionally, they addressed UI-related issues in color picker components and the heading block, and worked on accessibility improvements. Their work involved modifications to JavaScript files within the `packages` directory.
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