Timothy Jacobs
Software Engineer at Fingerprint
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Jacobs is a software engineer and co-founder with 12 years of experience building WordPress-first products and custom business tools. He led development of foundational WordPress offerings used on over a million sites at Liquid Web and continues to shape the ecosystem as a WordPress Core committer and REST API maintainer. At Engine Awesome and Iron Bound Designs he helps businesses turn domain-specific workflows into reliable, scalable web systems. Currently on the Platform team at Fingerprint, he blends product-focused engineering with platform-level concerns like security, backups, and performance. His contributions to high-profile projects like Gutenberg span both frontend and backend work, reflecting a full-stack approach to complex editor and API problems. Unusually, his background includes time as a child chorister at the Metropolitan Opera, which he credits for discipline and collaborative performance under pressure.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science BS, Computer Science BS at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Math Science and Engineering
German
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Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
rest-api10
javascript10
gutenberg10
api-design10
react10
php9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Oct 2018 - May 2022
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:237 reviews, 34 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to the Gutenberg project by implementing various features and fixing bugs related to the block editor. Their work included handling API responses, adding complete post type labels for reusable blocks, and adding headers for localization requests within the API fetch module. Furthermore, they updated the image editor route and addressed component-related issues. These contributions span both frontend and backend aspects of the project.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
iron-bound-designs/exchange-addon-gravity-forms-checkout-info
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
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