Jono Alderson
Software Engineer (via Magnit) at The WP Community Collective
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJono Alderson is a software engineer and globally recognised technical SEO expert with 10+ years helping major brands improve web performance, structured data, analytics and conversion. Currently embedded at Meta via Magnit, he provides technical SEO consultancy for meta.com while also advising open projects like AMP and serving on the board of The WP Community Collective. Previously Head of SEO at Yoast and Principal Consultant at Distilled, he blends product R&D, enterprise strategy and hands-on implementation across WordPress and marketing technology stacks. He co-founded Days Of The Year and speaks regularly at conferences, noted for making complex technical topics actionable for both marketers and engineers. Based in York, he runs Applied Energistics as an independent technical SEO consultant, combining consultancy with engineering execution. A detail-minded strategist, he often bridges developer-level fixes and executive-level growth planning—turning SEO research into scalable product improvements.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
338reputation
13kreached
11answers
4questions
Github Skills (107)
woocommerce10
metadata10
gutenberg10
web-app-manifest10
opengraph10
seo10
image-optimization10
wordpress10
mercadopago10
service-worker10
wordpress-api10
performance-optimization10
meta-tags10
transformation10
bigquery10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jonoalderson/edge-images
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Automatically convert <img> markup to use optimized markup & an edge transformation service.
Contributions:14 releases, 2 reviews, 611 commits in 2 years 1 month
transformationimage-optimizationcloudflareperformance-optimizationedge
jono-alderson/developer-docs
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:12 PRs, 51 pushes, 18 branches in 5 months
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