John Jacoby
Distinguished Software Engineer at WordPress
East Troy, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Jacoby is a distinguished software engineer with 16 years of experience shaping the WordPress ecosystem and leading R&D at Awesome Motive. A long-time contributor to flagship projects like BuddyPress, bbPress and the WordPress.org meta site, he blends front-end polish with full-stack fixes that improve usability and theme integration. He founded Triple J Software and co-founded Wispy to bring fast wireless internet to rural East Troy, showing entrepreneurial drive beyond open source. Known for pixel-level CSS and touch-interaction improvements (notably in Framework7), he pairs practical UI craftsmanship with backend tweaks and tooling updates. Off-hours he’s an author, animator and podcaster who amusingly prepares systems for Y2038 while enjoying 808s, roller skates, and puppy dates.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (25)
application-framework10
javascript10
ui-components10
wordpress10
css10
buddypress10
app-framework10
user-interface10
component-kit10
html10
web-framework10
lessc10
mobile-development9
template-engine9
templater9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
buddypress/buddypress
Oct 2009 - Feb 2022
BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2103 commits in 12 years 5 months
Contributions summary:John's commits primarily focused on updating the CSS and adding new styling to the user interface for the BuddyPress platform. They implemented single quote wrapping for CSS images, made changes to core admin, wizard, and BuddyBar elements, and updated styling for various elements within the platform, including a redesign of the user interface components to integrate more seamlessly into the WordPress theme. The contributions included work on the overall layout, and visual elements, and involved integration with existing theme systems.
wordpresssvntracpull-requestlink
WordPress/wordpress.org
Jan 2014 - Nov 2022
WordPress.org Meta, Git-ified. Synced from git://meta.git.wordpress.org/ This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress Meta subversion repository. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:175 commits, 1 comment in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the frontend and backend of the WordPress.org site by updating stylesheet locations, versions, and image paths related to BuddyPress and bbPress. They also modified the Trac templates, by adding "once=true" and updating the menu structure. Additionally, they updated and tweaked mobile CSS and the admin bar for the front-end view.
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