Jerry Wood
Director Of Software Engineering (CMS Platforms)
Richlands, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Wood is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience specializing in back-end WordPress, headless CMS architectures, and large-scale content migrations. As Director of Software Engineering at the NBA he directs the CMS platform powering all 30 teams, owning architectural decisions, CI/CD reliability, and cross-team technical guidance while mentoring engineers. He brings deep practical expertise in PHP, Docker, AWS, Elasticsearch, custom Gutenberg components and API-driven workflows, and has driven heavy unit testing regimes and migration automation from Drupal to WordPress. A proven open-source contributor, his backend work on 10up’s distributor plugin reflects a focus on refactoring, robustness, and practical integrations for multisite content sharing. Based in Richlands, NC, he combines a hacker’s persistence—“tell me WordPress can’t do it and I’ll show you it can”—with pragmatic product partnership to deliver stable, scalable publishing systems. Outside work he’s a Minecraft-loving gamer and father of three, a background that underscores his problem-solving persistence and collaborative mindset.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Aries A+, Aries A+ at Fayette Plateau Vo-TechGraduate in May Business Managment, Graduate in May Business Managment at Colorado Technical University
Github Skills (10)
wordpress10
content-management-system10
php10
syndication10
content-management10
git9
distributions8
content-type8
content-model8
management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
10up/distributor
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Share content between your websites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the `distributor` project. Their commits focused on refactoring and cleaning up existing PHP files, including `utils.php`, `distributed-post-ui.php`, `pull-ui.php`, `syndicated-post-ui.php`, and others. They also implemented changes to logging image sideload issues and improved code quality by using single quotes consistently.
intranetcontent-distributorwordpresssyndicationcontent-management
WooMinecraft/WooMinecraft
Jun 2014 - Jul 2022
A FREE Minecraft Donation Plugin that leverages the flexibility of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin to provide a truely free self-hosted donation system for Minecraft Servers.
Contributions:20 releases, 12 reviews, 299 commits in 8 years 1 month
minecraftwoocommercewordpressbukkit
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