Today is my last day at Boston University, a place that I have worked at for nearly two years. I am extremely excited to start my new full-time job on Monday as a WordPress Core Contributor at Bluehost.
Contributing to WordPress is very important to me. I believe in what WordPress represents and the doors that it opens for millions of people. I am excited that I can now focus entirely on contributing to and making WordPress better.
As I reflect on my time at Boston University, there are things I won’t miss about working here (*cough* traffic *cough*), but there are many more things that I will miss. My department, Interactive Design, and the University as a whole is full of amazing and inspiring people. If you are in the Boston area and are looking for work, I highly recommend that you reach out.
I was encouraged to grow by attending conferences, including being sent to Paris in 2017 to attend the WordPress Community Summit (one of my proudest professional moments) & WordCamp Europe.
I think about some of the projects I had a hand in:
- Questrom School of Business
- College of Arts & Sciences
- Of Hoops & Healing (Winter-Spring 17 Bostonia feature)
- I helped re-engineer the internal (soon to be open sourced) theme framework that runs a large percentage of BU websites to make it easier to build on.
- I helped implement a pull request/peer review workflow that included coding standards checks using CodeClimate.
- Created a banner plugin called BU Banners that will be activated on every new site moving forward (also soon to be open sourced).
And these are just the things that come to mind as I write this.
3 responses to “I’m Blue: My Next Chapter”
Good luck Jon. We are very proud of what you have done with yourself.
Goodluck Jonathan on your next adventure in life I know you will be very successful you’re a hard worker and an honest person.
Congrats! I’m excited about the things you and the rest of the new team will be working on.