Zebulon Young
Vice President Of Engineering at On Location
California, United States
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Top SchoolZebulon Young is a Vice President of Engineering based in California with 14 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale web applications and event-driven systems. He’s a hands-on technical leader and architect who blends full-stack JavaScript expertise (Node.js, React) with devops mastery (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) to ship resilient, containerized platforms. His recent work includes scaling guest operations and workforce tools for major live events including the Olympic Games, and incubating creator-economy products at Endeavor. An active open-source contributor, he improved WordPress shortcode UX by adding a sandboxed live preview that materially enhanced editor productivity. With a JD and early legal practice experience, he brings uncommon rigor in risk-aware decision making alongside practical engineering tradeoffs. Outside work he’s an ecologist and backyard farmer, reflecting a systems-thinking approach that informs both technical and organizational design.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
JD, JD at University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of LawUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (15)
iframe10
javascript10
front-end-development10
backbone10
backbonejs10
jquery9
html9
css9
wordpress9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
twitter-bootstrap6
dropdown-menu6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wp-shortcake/shortcake
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 comment in 10 days
Contributions summary:Zebulon focused on implementing a live preview feature within the WordPress shortcode UI. They added an iframe to sandbox the preview content and integrated editor styles to match the WordPress environment. Their contributions include creating a tabbed interface to switch between editing and preview modes, fetching the rendered shortcode from the server, and incorporating a loading placeholder. These changes significantly improved the user experience.
piecewordpressphpwordpress-pluginshortcodes
zebulonj/cerebral-hello
Jun 2015 - Feb 2019
Simple Cerebral + React example.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
cerebralreactjsreactreact-cerebral
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