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Bio

I’m an Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic with over 20+ years of dev experience. I have a fun and eclectic development background ranging from home automation systems, to scientific inventions, and many websites/plugins. Otherwise, I enjoy hiking with my awesome wife, rock climbing, and adventure!

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CODE
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C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer WP-CLI Contributor '24
COMMUNITY
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WordCamp Speaker '18

Current Job

Director of Engineering, AI
Oct 2025 – Present
Automattic

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
6contributions
high3
medium3
score12
Last 90 days
8contributions
high4
medium4
score16
Last 12 months
295contributions
high145
medium150
score585

Team focus

Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.6
  • 6.5
  • 6.4
  • 5.7
  • 5.5
  • 4.5

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 19 Fri · 22:09
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post What’s coming to the AI Client in WP 7.1, on the site WordPress AI:
Hi! Good question! At this time, there are no concrete plans to introduce something like…
Jun 19 Fri · 15:58
Meta high
Wrote a new post, What’s coming to the AI Client in WP 7.1, on the site WordPress AI:
With WordPress 7.1 on the calendar and the release squad announced, it's time to start…
Jun 10 Wed · 04:33
GitHub med
Closed pull request #132 on WordPress/php-ai-client:
Add embedding generation support
Jun 09 Tue · 22:36
GitHub high
Merged pull request #22 into WordPress/wp-bench:
Add comprehensive execution tests
Jun 04 Thu · 01:10
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #22 to WordPress/wp-bench:
Add comprehensive execution tests
May 2026
May 26 Tue · 22:26
GitHub high
Merged pull request #44 into WordPress/agent-skills:
wp-abilities-api: add three strategy-layer references (domain-vs-projection, shared-core-service, grouping-heuristic)
April 2026
Apr 15 Wed · 19:53
GitHub med
Closed issue #17 on the WordPress/ai-provider-for-google repository:
Google AI API does not allow the `additionalProperties` key for response schemas
Apr 15 Wed · 19:53
GitHub high
Merged pull request #18 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-google:
Remove `additionalProperties` from the JSON response schema
March 2026
Mar 03 Tue · 14:00
Core high
Mentioned in [61795] on WordPress SVN:
AI: Sync `Ability_Function_Resolver` API enhancement to harden security
Mar 01 Sun · 20:58
Core high
Mentioned in [61776] on WordPress SVN:
AI: Update PHP AI Client package to 1.2.1.

Developer

1 plugin

Contributor

3 plugins

Support Rep

4 plugins