Jason Jara
RSS FeedWordPress Developer & Marketing Automation Specialist — 10+ years building fast WordPress sites and marketing automation systems for APAC B2B teams.
Building for the web since Jan 2015 — 10+ years across WordPress development and marketing automation, for agencies and direct clients across the Philippines, Singapore and the US.
Most of my work sits at that intersection: fast, maintainable WordPress builds paired with the CRM and email workflows that keep a marketing team’s leads moving. React and TypeScript are where I’m growing next, often with AI-assisted tooling handling the repetitive groundwork while the architecture and QA stay mine.
I like two kinds of work: keeping large content sites fast and healthy, and building the automation that removes a problem for good.
Open to full-time remote roles, working AU business hours — freelance projects welcome alongside that.
Selected work
1up Court Queue
2026
A badminton court-queueing app for session organisers. Mobile-first React and TypeScript, built to a single file so it runs offline at the venue.
- React
- TypeScript
Mailchimp Sunset & Re-engagement Workflow
IMPACT! Brand Communications · 2026
Client work · under NDA
A Mailchimp sunset workflow that filtered a dormant APAC medtech regulatory affairs mailing list and re-engaged 20 subscribers out of 821 contacts.
- Mailchimp
Image to WebP
IMPACT! Brand Communications · 2025
A JPEG and PNG to WebP converter that runs entirely in your browser. Batch convert, download a zip, and your files are never uploaded anywhere.
- React
- Vite
- Canvas API
- JSZip
- AI-Assisted
Survival Life
Native Commerce · 2015–2016
Native Commerce's WordPress content site, which served millions of visitors a month. I was on the dev team that built its blog features and upsell workflows.
- WordPress
- PHP
- Magento
- Selenium
Recent Posts
Riftbound, Magic, and a shelf of board games
Riftbound's current meta, a decade of Magic formats that did and didn't hold up, and what's actually on the table with the regular group.
Judging Pokémon TCG events: rules, floors, and debugging
Running a tournament floor and debugging a system turn out to need the same instinct: stay calm, find the actual state, and resolve it on evidence.
Badminton club nights: why the queue became software
A weekly badminton night with up to 32 players and 4 courts is a scheduling problem before it's anything else. Here's where tracking it by hand breaks down.