About Jay Gidwitz

Jay Gidwitz is a creative technologist and visual artist in San Diego, California, who builds web experiences, video, and analytics systems for brands, and who exhibits surrealist photographic art internationally.

He is Web Strategy Lead at Riverbend Industries, where he specializes in Google Analytics implementation, WordPress performance work, and front-end development. He is also co-founder of Studio Issa, an AI-first web design and development agency.

Jay Gidwitz has worked with WordPress since 2004 — more than twenty years — which is why he specializes in Google Analytics implementation and WordPress performance work. That experience was built at MonsterInsights, where he handled Google Analytics integration and quality assurance for plugins running on more than three million active installs, and at Copyblogger, StudioPress, and Rainmaker before that.

He serves brands and agencies that need analytics they can trust, websites that load fast, and video that people finish watching. His clients' work has been cited on Wikipedia and by the Associated Press and NPR.

Jay Gidwitz earned a B.A. in Visual Art from Brown University, concentrating in photography, digital art, and web design, after training in classical drawing and painting at the School of Representational Art in Chicago. As an artist he works in surrealist photography and digital painting, and his work has been exhibited internationally, including at Necronomicon Providence. His art is catalogued at Surrealism Today.