Jake Goldman Email Address

Expert Web Developer, President of 10up

As web technologies and mobile devices improve and global internet speeds increase, consumers increasingly expect taps and clicks to deliver results nearly instantaneously| the "app-like" experience has become an expectation in web browsers. To this...

Jake has been building websites since the mid 90’s, and has built solutions for the Fortune 500, U.S. Navy, major universities and publishers, and high profile non-profits. His analyses have been quoted on publications like c|net.Jake is the owner & President of 10up, a full service web agency focused on outstanding publisher experiences and high scale implementation, with full time designers, engineers, strategists, and systems experts. Clients range from publishers like TechCrunch & Time, to media companies like NBC Universal & TED, to tech giants like Google & CenturyLink, to retailers like Kate Spade, to universities like Bates College & Brown. Jake built 10up from a 1 man show with a couple of clients to over 70 employees and dozens of brand name customers in 3.5 years. Today, 10up is recognized as one of the top agencies building on WordPress in the world. Jake led the development and release of 10up's first product in 2014, PushUp Notifications.Jake started working with WordPress in 2006 while managing the interactive division of a 100-man contractor. In 2009, while Technology Director at a Providence-based agency, he refocused his professional attention on the platform, releasing free plug-ins, diverting projects to the platform, and engaging the community. Jake’s leadership helped transform that agency from a 3-man team serving a niche CMS to an open source software agency with 12 employees.Between leading the charge at 10up, Jake has been a writer and expert reviewer for Smashing Magazine and taught WordPress development at Boston University. Jake has spoken at conferences around the country, including WordCamp San Francisco and New York, CMSExpo, and Pressnomics. He helped organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010 and founded Providence and Sacramento Meetups.Jake is a core contributor to WordPress and maintains some of the highest rated plug-ins on the official repository. Cumulatively, they have been downloaded over 700,000 times.