Aaron Jorbin (@jorbin) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Aaron is a polyhistoric man of the web who knows rabble-rousers get shit done. He has led engineering teams responsible for some of the largest and most prominent WordPress sites in the world including Rolling Stone, Variety, WIRED, The New Yorker, and Joe Biden’s White House. He is also a WordPress Core Committer that focuses on improving developer happiness and making the internet usable and enjoyable by everyone. You can contact him at https://aaron.jorb.in/get-in-touch/

Job History

Contributor, Core Committer, Release Lead

2010-02-26

WordPress

Contribute to over 30 major versions of WordPress, 20+ as a maintainer, core committer, and mentor.
Prioritize tickets to ensure successful and impactful releases.
Triage incoming issues after a major release to ensure maintenance releases are scheduled and executed
appropriately.
Create guidelines for use by contributors in areas including communication, release process, and triaging.
Organize a local meetup group and grow it from less than 20 to over one thousand members in three years.
Plan WordCamp NYC, WordCamp Publishers, & WordCamp US.
Mentor two Google Summer of Code students.
Speak at conferences and events around the world.

Technical Architect

2014-12-01 – 2015-12-31

Condé Nast

Architected system & performance improvements for six publications.
Migrated infrastructure for six publications onto AWS.
Launched three publications onto WordPress.
Assisted in creating and rolling out standard job titles and descriptions and creating a standard hiring process.

Director of Engineering

2016-09-01 – 2018-05-31

Some Spider

Directed product engineering by an internal team & contractors.
Relaunched flagship property, increasing time on site by 16% YoY .
Modeled revenue & costs around video distribution strategies to allow for data informed decisions.
Managed the launch of multiple new brands.
Instituted CI/CD processes leading to increased deployments with fewer side effects.

Sr. Director of Editorial Technology

2018-05-01 – 2022-12-31

Penske Media Corporation

Hired multiple engineers and lead training and onboarding; doubled the number of engineers and improved
diversity in the process.
Established and strengthen relationships with multiple vendors including negotiating new and expiring contracts.
Lead multi-year effort to update and standardize content editor across 20+ brands.
Rolled out Engineering Career Ladder with standardized salaries and normalized titles.
Oversaw the day-to-day work of multiple teams including direct and matrix reports.
Delivered success on multiple large high profile projects each year.
Enacted the first corporate hackathon and set up processes for future editions.
Improved corporate open-source contributions.
Initiated accessibility improvements including multiple product/engineering training and an organization-wide
workshop.
Redesigned the analytics product used by 20+ brands and senior executives.

Key Accomplishments

- WordPress Core Committer
- Introduced Automated JS Testing to WordPress
- Built grunt-patch-wordpress
- Lead WordPress Core\'s compatibility with PHP 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2
- Deputy Release Lead for WordPress 4.7
- Release Lead for over over a dozen maintaince and security releases

Interests

Usability, JavaScript, Build Tools, Whisky, Smiles, Community, Usability

Contributions Sponsored

Kinsta, The Supporters of Aaron Jorbin, and Jonathan Desrosiers sponsor Aaron Jorbin to contribute 20 hours per week to the Core team.

Member Since: May 6th, 2009
Location: FANTASY LAND
Website: aaron.jorb.in
GitHub: aaronjorbin
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Contribution History

bbPress Contributor
BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Hosting Contributor
Meta Contributor
Photo Contributor
Plugin Developer
Security Contributor
Security Team
Test Contributor
Tide Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
Plugins
Photos
Favorites
Translations

Closed ticket #65093 on Core Trac:
Age Assurance Framework for WordPress
1 week ago
Closed ticket #65005 on Core Trac:
Next/Previous for datepicker needs context
2 weeks ago
Committed [62242] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add context for Next/Previous strings in the jQuery UI ...
2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [62240] on WordPress SVN:
Abilities API: Catch exceptions thrown by ability callbacks and return WP_Error.
2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [62238] on WordPress SVN:
Abilities API: Catch exceptions thrown by ability callbacks and return WP_Error.
2 weeks ago
Committed [62210] to Core SVN:
Revert Register Akismet Anti-Spam as a connector. This reverts ...
3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Rethinking Left Navigation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
During the most recent core team chat, there was a good discussion on this. A…
4 weeks ago
Mentioned in [62169] on WordPress SVN:
Exports: Exclude `wp_sync_storage` post type from exports.
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62168] on WordPress SVN:
Exports: Exclude `wp_sync_storage` post type from exports.
1 month ago
Reopened ticket #64961 on Core Trac:
Language dropdown shows old hover/focus color on setup screen
1 month ago
Committed [62155] to Core SVN:
Build/Test: Set svn:global-ignore for built block files. After ...
1 month ago
Received props from @4thhubbard in Slack:
Props to @desrosj @johnbillion @jonsurrel @davidbaumwald and @jorbin for supporting the party today!
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62107] on WordPress SVN:
Code Modernization: Fix `rest_convert_error_to_response()` handling of non-array error data when obtaining `status`.
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62103] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Only copy block library-related CSS to a single location.
1 month ago
Committed [62094] to Core SVN:
Abilities API: Revert Allow nested namespace ability names. Abilities ...
1 month ago
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix @mukesh27 @SergeyBiryukov @audrasjb @juanmaguitar @marybaum @JeffPaul @Ankit K Gupta @wildworks @adamsilverstein @desrosj…
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62081] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Remove client-side media processing feature for now.
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #11310 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
First pass at constant for forcing enable/disable of real time collab
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62069] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Force run `grunt clean --dev` before `build`.
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62058] on WordPress SVN:
Real-time collaboration: change to opt-in (off-by-default).
1 month ago
Closed ticket #59239 on Core Trac:
wp_generate_uuid4 collisions
1 month ago
Committed [62054] to Core SVN:
General: Use functions that are more random to reduce likelihood of ...
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62052] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Copy block editor files to `src` after download.
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62051] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Update the `grunt clean` task after [61438].
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62042] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Test 6.9 in upgrade testing workflows.
1 month ago
Mentioned in [62006] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 4.7 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [62005] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 4.8 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [62004] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 4.9 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [62003] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.0 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [62002] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.1 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [62001] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.2 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61957] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.3 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61956] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.4 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61955] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.5 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61954] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.6 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61953] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.7 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61952] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.8 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61951] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 5.9 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61950] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.1 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61949] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.2 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61948] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.3 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61945] on WordPress SVN:
Script Loader: Refine hoisted stylesheet ordering to preserve original CSS cascade in classic themes.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61937] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Disable XML entity substitution in getID3.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61909] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.4 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61904] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.5 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61903] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.6 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61902] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.7 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61901] on WordPress SVN:
Grouped backports for the 6.8 branch.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61897] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Ensure client-side templates are only detected when they're correctly associated with a script tag.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [61896] on WordPress SVN:
Interactivity API: Skip binding event handler attributes.
2 months ago