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Jason Martinez Senior Front-End Developer & WordPress Architect

I help teams take control of complex WordPress, WooCommerce, and marketing websites by improving performance, accessibility, maintainability, tracking, and long-term reliability.

With 17+ years of agency experience, I'm comfortable stepping into inherited codebases, unclear documentation, technical debt, urgent fixes, and cross-functional web work that needs steady senior judgment.

I'm currently open to senior front-end, WordPress architecture, web platform, and technical lead roles.

Best-fit Scenarios

Where I help most

I'm a strong fit for teams that need a senior developer who can step into real-world web systems, make sense of the moving parts, and keep progress steady even when the codebase, documentation, or workflow is less than perfect.

Complex WordPress & WooCommerce sites

Custom themes, ACF-driven content, WooCommerce templates, product logic, store/location behavior, and maintainable editor-friendly systems.

Marketing-connected websites

Sites that need clean structure, performance, tracking support, forms, SEO awareness, redirects, analytics, and collaboration with marketing teams.

Inherited & under-documented codebases

Existing websites with technical debt, plugin risk, inconsistent patterns, urgent fixes, unclear ownership, and long-term reliability needs.

Teams bringing web ownership in-house

Companies that want more control, faster turnaround, better documentation, safer workflows, reduced outside dependency, and clearer technical standards.

Highlights

Experience at a glance

Selected Work

Case studies that show how I solve web problems

Real examples of complex web systems I've helped improve, stabilize, and support.

Technical Ownership

Helping teams take better control of their web stack

After years inside agency web development, I understand what companies need when they want more ownership of their web stack: faster turnaround, more direct communication, better technical access, cleaner systems, stronger documentation, safer workflows, and a practical partner who can make the transition manageable.

Faster turnaround

Help internal teams move quicker on website updates, bug fixes, landing pages, tracking changes, forms, and marketing requests without turning every small task into a larger project.

Direct communication & technical access

Work closely with marketing, design, leadership, and outside partners so questions get answered faster, requirements are clearer, and technical decisions do not get lost in translation.

Cleaner systems & safer workflows

Review themes, plugins, hosting, integrations, deployment habits, and recurring pain points to reduce fragility and make future changes easier to plan, test, and release.

Documentation & long-term ownership

Create clearer documentation around site structure, custom functionality, plugins, reusable components, access, deployment steps, and maintenance needs so the team is less dependent on tribal knowledge.

Core Strengths

How I help complex web work run smoother

I combine hands-on development, CMS architecture, technical judgment, and clear communication to make complex websites easier to build, maintain, and improve.

Front-end systems

Responsive, accessible, production-ready interfaces built with clean markup, reusable patterns, and careful attention to how designs work with real content.

WordPress & WooCommerce architecture

Custom themes, templates, ACF structures, product logic, editor-friendly workflows, and maintainable CMS-driven systems.

Technical quality

Performance, accessibility, SEO awareness, safer deployments, cleaner code, and practical decisions that reduce long-term maintenance problems.

Senior collaboration

Clear communication with marketing, design, SEO, leadership, clients, and outside partners so technical work stays aligned with business needs.

Skills & tools

My stack for reliable, maintainable web platforms

A practical mix of production tools, CMS experience, front-end development, accessibility, performance, marketing integrations, and adjacent technologies from recent project work.

WordPress, CMS & eCommerce

WordPress PHP Custom themes Templates Advanced Custom Fields Custom Post Types Taxonomies WordPress hooks WP_Query REST API AJAX Reusable components Editor-friendly content systems WooCommerce Shopify Elementor HubSpot CMS

Front-end development

HTML CSS SCSS JavaScript jQuery Bootstrap Responsive layouts Accessible markup Cross-browser QA Animation support

Performance, accessibility & SEO

Core Web Vitals Performance optimization Caching / CDN awareness WCAG / ADA remediation Semantic HTML Technical SEO Yoast SEO Redirect planning Metadata Structured content Heading hierarchy

Marketing, analytics & integrations

GA4 / Google Analytics Google Tag Manager HubSpot Pardot Gravity Forms Formstack Klaviyo Mailchimp Constant Contact Contact Form 7 Third-party integrations Tracking support Lead-flow troubleshooting

Security & reliability

Core / theme / plugin maintenance Vulnerability patching Wordfence Malware scanning Login protection Backups & restore coordination

Workflow & platforms

Git GitHub Bitbucket WP Engine Local WP-CLI Pantheon Cloudflare Figma Photoshop Cursor AI-assisted development workflows

Adjacent & Emerging Stack

React TypeScript Node.js Next.js Hydrogen Astro Puppeteer

About

Built through real agency web work

A career shaped by real client work, long-term maintenance, and practical technical decisions.

I've spent 17+ years in agency web development building, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting websites for real clients with real constraints.

That experience shaped how I work: practical decisions, clean handoffs, maintainable systems, steady communication, and a strong bias toward solving the actual problem instead of only shipping the visible request.

Over time, I became a long-term technical anchor across custom WordPress builds, WooCommerce systems, accessibility remediation, performance work, maintenance, and client support. For a stretch, I was the only developer on the team, which taught me how to balance new work, urgent fixes, documentation, technical decisions, and long-term site reliability.

I'm at my best in environments where websites are important to the business, the work needs a mix of planning and hands-on development, and the team needs someone who can build thoughtfully from the start or make steady progress within an existing site or web stack.

Testimonials

What managers and teammates say

Excerpts from LinkedIn recommendations from people who worked with me directly across development, client support, project delivery, and long-term website maintenance.

I've had the pleasure of working alongside Jason Martinez as his manager at Enilon for the past 9 years, and I can say without hesitation that he's one of the strongest frontend developers I've had on my team.

Jason brings a rare combination of technical depth and genuine care for the work. His code is clean, thoughtful, and built with the long game in mind — but what sets him apart is how he shows up beyond the code. He's the kind of developer who asks the right questions before diving in, anticipates problems before they surface, and takes real ownership of outcomes, not just tasks.

What's impressed me most is how naturally he communicates — whether he's walking a client through a technical concept or collaborating with our internal team across SEO, paid media, and dev. He has a way of making complex things feel approachable without losing any of the nuance, which is a genuinely rare skill in this industry.

Jason is self-motivated, dependable, and always brings a solution-oriented mindset to whatever lands on his plate. Any team would be lucky to have him — I know ours is better for it.

Bill Jones

Director of Studio, Enilon

Managed Jason directly

I have absolutely loved working with Jason on projects for many years, and look forward to many more. He's dependable, detail-oriented, and comes up with solutions, rather than just simply code. I never have to worry about clients or projects when Jason is involved, and that's such a burden lifted. 100% recommend Jason for your development projects!

Harlan Bowling

Full-Stack Developer, Enilon

Worked with Jason on the same team

I can't say enough about Jason. He's a great front-end developer, team player, problem solver… and he's funny too :) Highly recommend Jason for any team looking for someone they can trust, that will jump into anything, deliver great work and be a fun team member.

Claire H Brunner

Demand Gen Leader / Business & Marketing Growth Strategist

Managed Jason directly

More recommendations are available on LinkedIn. Professional references can be provided during the interview process.

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Let's talk about the right web role

I'm currently open to senior front-end, WordPress architecture, web platform, and technical lead roles where I can help teams build, improve, and support reliable web systems.

If your team needs someone who can work across front-end development, WordPress, WooCommerce, accessibility, performance, marketing integrations, documentation, and long-term site ownership, I'd be happy to connect.