Jon Waldstein
Staff Software Engineer at Liquid Web
Hopkinton, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolJon Waldstein is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building full-stack web applications and a deep specialization in payment integrations, API design, and scalable architecture—recently focused on fundraising technology. He led development for GiveWP, the #1 open-source WordPress donation plugin used by 100k+ nonprofits, improving backend payment processing and donation workflows. Comfortable across PHP/Laravel, MySQL, GraphQL and React, he has shipped SaaS fundraising platforms integrating Stripe, Algolia, Zapier and other ops tooling. Based in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Jon blends hands-on engineering with product leadership, progressing from developer to Manager of Development and now Staff Engineer at Liquid Web. Notably, his contributions to GiveWP demonstrate an ability to harden payment paths and extend extensibility via hooks and refactors that directly boost donor experience and platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS, Communication and Media Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University
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Github Skills (10)
wordpress10
hook10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
donation10
database-design9
api8
apim8
ecommerce8
phpunit7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
impress-org/givewp
May 2021 - Jan 2023
GiveWP - The #1 Donation Plugin for WordPress. Easily accept donations and fundraise using your WordPress website.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 970 reviews, 203 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to adding and modifying code within the GiveWP plugin's backend, focusing on features related to donation forms and payment processing. The commits involve adding new hooks, modifying database interactions (as indicated by changes in files dealing with form processing and meta keys), refactoring code, and updating payment gateway integration. The user's changes directly enhance the donation functionalities, payment processing logic, and user experience, demonstrating a focus on improving the core features of the plugin.
ecommerceaccept-donationswordpressphpwordpress-site
jonwaldstein/vibrato
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
A Wordpress Theme Boilerplate
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 years 3 months
wordpress-theme-boilerplatetemplateboilerplatewordpresswordpress-theme
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