Zac Gordon
Coach And Director Of Business Development at Kate Stone Prep
Darien, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolZac Gordon is an educator-turned-entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience building web education programs, hosting platforms, and developer-focused courses around JavaScript and WordPress. He founded and led Web Hosting for Students to become a leading provider for schools teaching web design, while also creating widely used courses, bootcamps, and books on modern JavaScript, React, and Gatsby. As Coach and Director of Business Development at Kate Stone Prep he combines one-on-one student coaching with strategic growth work, drawing on a deep background teaching at institutions from Montgomery County Community College to Boston University. Zac is known for translating classroom pedagogy into scalable products and infrastructure—often focusing on practical, classroom-ready hosting solutions that many technologists overlook. His academic grounding spans calendrics and planetary astronomy to a master’s in education, reflecting a curious, interdisciplinary approach to technology and teaching. Based in Darien, CT, he still coaches individuals in business and personal growth alongside his work improving web development education.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Calendrics and Mathematics Planetary Astronomy and Science, Calendrics and Mathematics Planetary Astronomy and Science at University of CambridgeMasters Education, Masters Education at University of Maryland
Github Skills (46)
javascript10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
blocks10
gutenberg-blocks10
php10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress-rest-api10
react10
wordpress-themes9
wpgraphql9
security9
gatsby9
backend9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zgordon/frontend-masters-jsforwp
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Example files for Frontend Masters Class JavaScript for WordPress Course
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 10 months
frontendjavascriptwordpress
zgordon/advanced-gutenberg-course
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Advanced Gutenberg Development Plugin
Contributions:103 commits, 63 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
wordpressgutenbergplugin-developmentwordpress-plugingutenberg-blocks
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