Jimmy Madon is a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and plugins, currently contributing to Google Site Kit for WordPress. He blends modern JavaScript and React front-end expertise with PHP and cloud-native back-end work, and has hands-on experience deploying services on AWS (ECS, AppSync, CloudFormation). As a former lead engineer he drove a company-wide Agile transformation that doubled delivery predictability and implemented CI/CD and automated front-end testing. He also writes Moodle plugins and full-stack features for EdTech products, demonstrating a practical mix of legacy PHP systems and modern GraphQL/React stacks. Outside of product work he teaches programming and software engineering part-time, consistently earning top student feedback for making OOP accessible to non-developers. Active in open source, his Site Kit contributions focused on UX fixes and AdSense stability improvements for a widely-used Google project.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction (74%), Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction (74%) at University of Oxford
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First-class honours (80%), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First-class honours (80%) at University of East London
High School, Science stream, Distinction (89%), High School, Science stream, Distinction (89%) at The K.C. College, Mumbai
Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:244 reviews, 659 commits, 168 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily worked on the front-end, particularly focusing on the user interface components and their behavior. Their contributions involved fixing category issues, adding the `async` attribute to AdSense snippets, and preventing the AdSense interface from greying out during checks. They also updated several components and added icons to navigation chips to improve the user experience.
Email Queue plugin for CakePHP with Sender command to batch deliver emails using a cron job or offline worker
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
batchphpemailemailscron-job
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Jimmy Madon - Senior Full-stack Software Engineer at 10up