Sam Hotchkiss
Ponderer at Technonymous
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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RockstarSam Hotchkiss is a seasoned software leader, founder, and remote team builder with three decades of software experience and a track record of founding and scaling multiple startups, including Parka/BruteProtect and Reconnect, both acquired. He led major product and release efforts at Automattic for Jetpack and Akismet, improving stability and user conversion while contributing backend enhancements to the widely used automattic/jetpack project. Sam has taken ideas from prototype to nationwide implementation—building Reconnect into deployments across 38 states—and later focused on blockchain analytics with Flip.xyz to democratize DeFi insights. Based in Santa Fe, he blends hands-on development, security-minded engineering, and product leadership, having grown consulting work into a multimillion-dollar agency before exits. He’s equally comfortable shipping code, shaping roadmaps, and running distributed teams, and often pairs technical depth with unconventional, systems-level problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
foursquare6
javascript4
html4
css3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Dec 2014 - Jan 2018
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:63 releases, 1 review, 743 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sam's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Jetpack Alpha settings within the `automattic/jetpack` repository, a WordPress plugin. They implemented changes to the alpha settings admin page, introducing features such as auto-redirects and "press this" functionality, while also addressing design and logic concerns. The contributions included modifications to PHP files related to the Jetpack alpha functionality and the underlying framework.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
samhotchkiss/pingcatcher
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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