Joey Kudish
Chief Technology Officer at Image Salon
Canada
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Top SchoolJoey Kudish is a seasoned CTO and hands-on engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable web platforms, AI-enabled automation, and e-commerce systems from architecture through production. He currently serves as fractional CTO at Image Salon—where he led the launch of PHAiTO and built a global ordering platform and internal CRM that scaled operations across thousands of projects—and consults for brands like Sotheby’s, DVLOP, and Universal Yums. Previously he contributed to high-scale WordPress and WooCommerce products at Automattic and Metorik, including backend work on the widely used Jetpack plugin and REST API features. Comfortable across Laravel, PHP, JS frameworks, and cloud infrastructure, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded systems design. Joey runs Tether (an SMS gateway for digital nomads) publicly and writes about AI development workflows, signaling a focus on operationalizing AI rather than just experimenting with it. Based in Canada, he’s available for fractional CTO engagements and remote, async-friendly Laravel projects.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Primary & High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Primary & High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Collège international Marie de FranceAudio Engineering & Electronic Music Production, Audio Engineering & Electronic Music Production at Nimbus School of Recording and MediaDEC, Business Management and Marketing Technology, DEC, Business Management and Marketing Technology at Dawson College
French, Russian, Italian, English
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Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
debug10
wordpress-plugin10
xmlrpc9
software-design9
git9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
radishconcepts/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater
Oct 2011 - Sep 2013
This class is meant to be used with your Github hosted WordPress plugins. The purpose of the class is to allow your WordPress plugin to be updated whenever you push out a new version of your plugin; similarly to the experience users know and love with the WordPress.org plugin repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Joey contributed to the development and maintenance of a WordPress plugin updater, likely for use with GitHub-hosted WordPress plugins. Their commits focused on code enhancements and bug fixes within the plugin's core file, including indentation, version bumping, and code standard adjustments. They also incorporated a testing plugin to ensure semi-automated functionality and incorporated WordPress standards into the codebase.
with-lovepushwordpress-pluginswordpresshosted
Automattic/jetpack
Feb 2014 - Feb 2016
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:16 commits, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joey primarily focused on improving the Jetpack plugin's backend functionality. They addressed a bug in the `post_login_form_to_signed_url` function, preventing PHP notices and authentication failures. Further contributions involved refactoring the publicize module, specifically optimizing XMLRPC calls related to publicize connections and the post meta related custom message. Additionally, the user added a new feature for the post-types endpoint of the REST API.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
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