Jorge Leandro Perez
Software Engineer at Automattic Inc.
Summary
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RockstarJorge Leandro Perez is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience and a strong focus on macOS and iOS development. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress-iOS and Facebook's SocketRocket, improving UI features, push notification handling, and the stability of WebSocket clients. Jorge excels at bridging frontend interactivity and backend reliability—examples include implementing visual HTML editor features in AztecEditor-iOS and hardening stream/error handling in SocketRocket. He’s comfortable refactoring legacy code and shipping pragmatic fixes that reduce crashes and memory issues while enhancing user-facing functionality. Based in the United States, Jorge combines disciplined engineering with a knack for improving developer-facing components that yield outsized product impact.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
objective-c10
ios10
websocket10
ui-design10
android-developer10
xcode10
uid10
websockets-client10
front-end-development10
android10
android-developers10
mobile10
swift10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Mar 2014 - Jun 2020
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 15972 commits, 1060 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the iOS application, focusing on bug fixes, feature enhancements, and refactoring existing code. Their work involved updating subject style mappings for notifications, merging changes from the develop branch, and implementing various UI-related improvements. The contributions span across multiple areas of the iOS app, including the preview functionality, widget updates, and improvements to the push notification handling within the application.
cocoapodsobjective-cwordpressswiftios
wordpress-mobile/AztecEditor-iOS
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
A reusable native iOS visual HTML text editor component.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 1281 commits, 306 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the development of a native iOS visual HTML text editor component, demonstrating a focus on UI and interactive element implementation. The commits involve implementing new image helpers, integrating image insertion functionality, and refactoring the image attachment mechanism within the AztecVisualEditor component. The contributions span multiple files, including the main editor component, and also encompass demonstration code for the iOS Aztec editor.
html-text-editorios-nativeiosios-libraryhtml-text
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