Robert Gadon
Principal at Spiral Web | Design + Build
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Gadon is a Principal web developer with 10 years’ experience specializing in WordPress and the Genesis Framework, running Spiral Web | Design + Build to deliver custom sites for individuals, small businesses, and nonprofits. He combines hands-on plugin and theme development with content strategy, site configuration, and long-term maintenance, and has deep experience producing clear, accessible documentation for widely used plugins. Robert improved support and docs for Popup Maker—helping optimize search success and migrating code samples to GitHub—while handling thousands of support tickets and validating releases via a Git workflow. Based in Missouri and formerly active in Minneapolis community tech, he brings a pragmatic, educator-first approach that prioritizes usability for non-developers and international users. His background in testing, accessibility-minded documentation, and unit/integration training complements a scientific mindset from graduate study in occupational and environmental health.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Occupational & Environmental Health, Master of Science (M.S.) Occupational & Environmental Health at Wayne State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Environmental Advocacy, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Environmental Advocacy at The University of Michigan -School of Natural Resources & EnvironmentComputer science PHP jQuery/JS CSS/SASS SQL WordPress Genesis framework, Computer science PHP jQuery/JS CSS/SASS SQL WordPress Genesis framework at KnowTheCode ( https://knowthecode.io )no degree chemistry minor, no degree chemistry minor at Oakland University, Rochester, MIUnit & WordPress Integration Testing, Unit & WordPress Integration Testing at KnowTheCode Mentoring
Github Skills (13)
jquery-plugin10
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
jquery9
django9
popup-window9
cornerstone9
php8
postgresql7
popup6
subversion5
git2
genesis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rgadon107/extend-give-wp
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Customizes the Give donation plugin to render custom content to the donation page.
Contributions:38 PRs, 63 pushes, 33 branches in 5 months
rendercustom-contentwordpresspluginwordpress-plugin
rgadon107/cornerstone
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Cornerstone Chorale & Brass web redevelopment project
Contributions:790 commits, 114 PRs, 323 pushes in 2 years 5 months
choraledjangowordpresswordpress-themephp
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