Jacob Schweitzer

Senior Software Developer

20+ years of experience in Information Technology including computer programming, networking systems, marketing, and customer support.

Education

B.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007)

 Cisco Networking Academy Graduate

Languages

Achievements

 Moz published post about an SEO tool I developed for their API.

 BuddyPress Profile Tabs published December 2012, has 500+ downloads.

 Code Canyon published my plugin:  Toolbar Remixed Pro in September 2013.

Personal Projects

BP Profile Tabs

A custom WordPress plugin I created for RusKey Biz to show jQuery UI tabs using BuddyPress profile groups for the BuddyPress profile pages.

Toolbar Remixed

A premium WordPress plugin I made to customize and control the WordPress toolbar.

Toolbar Remixed – Free (free version on wordpress.org)

Work History

Alley

Senior Software Developer

February 2019-Present

• Architecting and building performant enterprise-grade solutions for REST API integrations, Gutenberg blocks, homepage story curation, site migration, and redesign
• Coaching developers by providing feedback, offering advice, and supporting their professional development efforts
• Optimizing developer experience through code abstraction, testing, improving CI pipelines, and refactoring legacy code
• Led effort to encourage a more collaborative development environment through office hours and scheduled swarms including writing an article about it
• Notable partners: NewsCorp (New York Post, Page Six, Decider)

XWP

Senior WordPress Engineer

January 2016-January 2019

• Architecting solutions for clients with enterprise scale WordPress websites.
• Developing extensible WordPress themes and plugins for Gutenberg, dynamic AMP, content personalization, WordPress VIP, API integrations, code performance enhancements, and advertising systems.
• Contributing to open source projects including the official AMP for WordPress plugin and Stream. 
• Notable partners: Google, Penske Media, Chive Media Group, BigCommerce, Heavy Inc

Theme Fusion

Web development

May 2015-September 2015

• Fusion Gallery (image and video gallery plugin for WordPress)
  • Developed several different layout types including masonry (Pinterest) style layout
  • Made plugin extendable by adding WordPress filters and actions so add-ons could be developed
  • Created videos add-on to allow self-hosted, Youtube, and Vimeo videos in a gallery
  • Created layouts add-on for adding extra layouts
  • Converted plugin CSS to LESS and re-organized stylesheet structure
  • Added build automation using Gulp for minimizing files, auto-prefixing CSS, etc
  • Re-factored large class files from previous developer using class extensions
  • Implemented PhotoSwipe popup gallery integrating all its options and custom slideshow functionality

 

Abeo

Web development

January 2014-January 2016

• Surveys WordPress Plugins – Frontend and Database plugins
  • Custom surveys plugin with JavaScript (jQuery + jQuery UI) frontend and PHP / MySQL backend
  • Custom database tables to hold survey questions and results
  • Custom algorithm to determine survey results including archetype calculation
  • Custom algorithm to determine a centroid for a multiple user spider graph
  • PDF reporting of survey results with Google Charts created into images by using PhantomJS
  • WP Image Editor usage to crop images for usage in PDF
  • Pseudo cron events for creation of PDFs in background
  • Cron job for automatic cleanup of old PDFs
• Modifications to the WordPress LMS Plugin by LearnDash
  • Including additional WordPress and BuddyPress fields in Course and Quiz exports
  • Fixing incorrect quiz titles issue
  • Force export of all users
  • Force export of all instances of quizzes taken (if they take quiz more than once)
• Aloha Users Sync – Custom WordPress plugin
  • Monitoring folder for changes via WordPress Cron and WordPress option with MD5 of file list
  • Import and Update Users from a CSV file into WordPress
  • Updating log file on server with changes, updating specific email addresses if a problem arises
  • Import info from the CSV file into BuddyPress xprofile fields and BuddyPress groups
  • Creating Windows command line script to schedule a task, convert DBF file to CSV file, and FTP the file to a server

EventsWork

Web development

November 2013-July 2014

• Customized search functionality for Jobroller theme
• Addtional fields for job submissions in the Jobroller theme
• Coupon functionality for the Jobroller theme
• Autocomplete cities selection for job listing and search in Jobroller theme
• Fix applied to WordPress importer plugin for duplicate categories in custom post types
• Server and domain migration
• Responsive theme updates
• CSS style enhancements and fixes

Proactive Accountant

Web development

September 2013-December 2013

• DirectoryPress responsive theme migration
• DirectoryPress theme customizations

Creative Round

Web development

February 2013-September 2013

• Customizing WordPress Petitions Plugin and Theme
• BuddyPress custom emails and notifications plugin
• Parallax Signup Page
• Social Widget Plugin
• Subscribe to column plugin
• Gravity Forms – WYSIJA integration plugin
• Disqus Multisite plugin
• BuddyPress to WordPress profile transfer plugin

Worlds Factory

Web development

January 2013-April 2013

• Creating Levels / Rankings with progress bar for Achievements for WordPress plugin
• Customized achievements for Achievements for WordPress plugin
• BBPress report reply functionality
• BuddyPress custom notifications
• BuddyPress profile customizations

Dancing Bear Tours

Web development and SEO

2011-2017 St.Petersburg, Russia

• Custom WordPress theme
• Online booking form plugin
• WordPress message board plugin
• SEO and customer support on-going

Hotel Vera

Web development and Digital marketing

10/2010-Present St.Petersburg, Russia

• Developed responsive, mobile ready, custom WordPress theme
• Utilized WordPress custom post types for hotel rooms and prices pages
• Designed new SEO friendly website
• Increased organic search traffic by over 30%

TJ Travel

WordPress development and SEO

2010-2016 St.Petersburg, Russia

• Setup on dedicated server
• Created custom contact form plugin
• Custom WordPress plugin for the message board
• SEO and customer support on-going