Rocky Tripaldi
Artist at Tripaldi Artworks
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRocky Tripaldi is a versatile technologist-turned-artist with 11 years of software engineering experience and a track record building impactful consumer and WordPress tooling, including key contributions at Automattic on Jetpack’s JSON API and e-commerce innovation for Tumblr’s Tumblrmart. Based in Portland, Maine, he combines backend engineering chops—shipping plugin/theme auto-update endpoints and improving API robustness—with creative practice as a painter and founder of Tripaldi Artworks. His career blends product-minded engineering (notably the Lunar Badge and social verification features) with hands-on multimedia work and leadership experience running a theatre ensemble and managing interactive art projects. Now a free agent, he’s exploring how to bridge creative practice and technical systems rather than fully retire, bringing a rare mix of web platform expertise, design sensibility, and practical e-commerce and media production experience.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree, Graphic Communications, Bachelors Degree, Graphic Communications at Franklin Pierce UniversityAssociate's degree, Liberal Studies, Associate's degree, Liberal Studies at Southern Maine Community College
English
Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Oct 2014 - Mar 2020
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:466 commits, 257 PRs, 754 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rocky focused on enhancing the functionality of the `automattic/jetpack` repository's JSON API. Their work centered on expanding the API to include features such as automatically updating plugins and themes. They implemented new endpoints, refactoring code to address path conflicts and improve error handling. The user's contributions show a clear focus on improving the functionality of the Jetpack plugin's underlying infrastructure.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
roccotripaldi/wordpress-cribbage
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 79 commits, 75 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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