Jesse Friedman
Head Of WP Cloud at Automattic
Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Friedman is a seasoned WordPress and web platform leader with 11 years of experience shaping product, partnerships, and cloud strategy at Automattic, where he currently leads WP Cloud and serves as VP of Innovation and Partnership Success. He blends hands-on engineering—having significantly revamped Jetpack’s admin UX and front-end modules—with strategic roles building innovation programs and partner ecosystems. Jesse’s background spans founding a WordPress-focused studio, directing web development for agencies, and teaching multimedia and web design, reflecting both entrepreneurial and educational instincts. Based in Warwick, Rhode Island, he’s known for turning complex UX and platform challenges into pragmatic, measurable improvements (for example, introducing Jump Start and JITM tracking in Jetpack). Comfortable across product, engineering, and business development, he pairs deep WordPress expertise with a knack for aligning technical work to growth and partnership outcomes. An Adjunct Professor of the year alumnus, he brings a rare mix of classroom clarity and production-grade delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Web Management and Internet Commerce, BS Web Management and Internet Commerce at Johnson & Wales University
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Github Skills (8)
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
front-end-development10
wordpress-plugin10
plugin10
react9
ui-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:157 commits, 46 PRs, 226 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily worked on the front-end and administrative sections of the Jetpack plugin. They overhauled the module UI, implementing new designs and functionalities. This included modifications to the admin page layouts, and functionality such as the introduction of Jump Start, the implementation of JITM and the tracking of numerous user actions on the settings pages. They made multiple changes to the javascript and templates.
jetpacksecuritywordpressphpplugin
jessefriedman/forward
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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