Bio
A minimalistic, optimistic, and athletic nomad who enjoys photography, deep conversations, and thought provoking questions. I aim to be a dot connector, accelerant, and doer across the most impactful areas of the WordPress ecosystem, alongside my work within Automattic.
WordPress Origin Story
I discovered WordPress my freshman year of college at UNC Chapel Hill while searching for a job on campus. I had been using Blogger for a private blog with friends the previous 5-6 years. When I saw an “Instructional Technologist” job pop up, I jumped to apply. That was in 2011 and I haven’t looked back since.
Badges
Core Contributor
'20
Core Team
'20
Meta Contributor
'21
Plugin Developer
Documentation Contributor
'22
Photo Contributor
'22
Community Contributor
'20
WordCamp Speaker
'21
C
Credits Graduate
'26
Test Contributor
'21
Test Team
'21
Current Job
Architecture & Open Source Director
Feb 2025 –
Present
Automattic
Accelerant, integrator, doer, and dot connector working on the leadership team across Automattic’s 270+ person engineering organization and the broader WordPress.org open source community.
Job History
Product Manager
Mar 2022 – Feb 2025
Automattic
Led cross-functional initiatives across Automattic and the global WordPress.org open-source community to drive product development and user adoption.
Developer Relations Wrangler
Apr 2020 – Mar 2022
Automattic
First developer relations wrangler at Automattic, approached the role with a mindset of paving the way to grow the practice internally while cultivating a welcoming, interactive, and knowledge-rich environment within the WordPress.org open source community through creating resources, facilitating meaningful conversations, initiating targeted outreach efforts, and more.First developer relations wrangler at Automattic, approached the role with a mindset of paving the way to grow the practice internally while cultivating a welcoming, interactive, and knowledge-rich environment within the WordPress.org open source community through creating resources, facilitating meaningful conversations, initiating targeted outreach efforts, and more.
Key Accomplishments
WordPress 5.9 Test Co-Lead.
Ran the Full Site Editing Outreach program from May 2020 to February 2024, a pioneering new program designed to gather feedback from users, builders, and developers to improve phase 2 of WordPress.
Recent impact
Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.
Last 30 days
24contributions
Last 90 days
77contributions
Last 12 months
291contributions
high44
medium247
score379
Team focus
Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days
WordPress releases
Contributed to 16 releases
- Release Team 1
- Noteworthy Contributor 14
- Core Contributor 1
- 7.0
- 6.9
- 6.8
- 6.7
- 6.6
- 6.5
- 6.4
- 6.3
- 6.2
- 6.1
- 6.0
- 5.9
- 5.8
- 5.7
- 5.6
- 5.5
Time commitment
20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time
June 2026
Jun 26
Fri · 20:40
Meta
med
Wrote a
comment on the post
Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for this thoughtful proposal and for thinking beyond just the initial Guidelines feature. Adding…
Jun 21
Sun · 22:39
Meta
med
Wrote a
comment on the post
Roadmap to 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Hey @justlevine! Thanks for your questions. In terms of "which component does connectors fall under",…
Jun 19
Fri · 21:04
GitHub
med
Created issue
#701 in the
WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
WordPress.org profiles: fix the credits API to correctly reflect release squads
Jun 19
Fri · 00:07
Meta
high
Wrote a new post,
Roadmap to 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 7.1 is set to be released on August 19th, 2026. This release advances how…
Jun 17
Wed · 16:10
Meta
med
Wrote a
comment on the post
Announcing the WordPress 7.1 Release Squad, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Excited to work on 7.1 with you all!
No contributions in this category yet.
