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Alain Schlesser

Principal Architect at Yoast

@schlessera Olzheim, Germany joined Apr 2015

alainschlesser.com github.com/schlessera Slack: @schlessera
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    Bio

    I am a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany.

    I am the maintainer of WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress and I work on WordPress Core itself as a contributor and component maintainer.

    I offer higher-level consulting, code reviews and software design coaching, enabling companies to deal with frequent change and ever-growing complexity while optimizing for reduced maintenance effort and lower total cost of ownership.

    Passionate about software architecture and code quality, I never miss an opportunity to share best practices and try to live up to my educational aspirations through public speaking and blogging.

    You can read my thoughts on code & other things at https://www.alainschlesser.com or say hello on Twitter under the handle @schlessera.

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Core Team '20 Plugin Developer WP-CLI Contributor '17 WP-CLI Team '17
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '19
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Principal Architect
    Present
    Yoast

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    150contributions
    high138
    medium12
    score426
    Last 90 days
    475contributions
    high433
    medium42
    score1341
    Last 12 months
    1645contributions
    high1486
    medium159
    score4617

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 15 releases
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.7
    • 4.6

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 13 Sat · 07:50
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@736b2f13a9777ee38614186d2e1ff250ca9ebf38
    Jun 13 Sat · 07:40
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1058 merged into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 13 Sat · 05:45
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1058 to wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 12 Fri · 09:16
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@4bc9ca38c79ca4764a8620681c6e34478d14b0f2
    Jun 12 Fri · 08:30
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@5b01db9897cd6333d1f46f963900345e583f2ca3
    Jun 11 Thu · 21:06
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@88887b351a756f999dada4fd635caa7b62a3eb3b
    Jun 11 Thu · 06:48
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@2616ff0d541f0a3adfe2775022f88c826c9884f1
    Jun 11 Thu · 06:38
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1053 merged into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 11 Thu · 05:52
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1053 to wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 09 Tue · 16:21
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@c807ba08dc4d65f2551ef1aaf8f66aa138e911b5

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Translations

    1 locale
    lb_LU Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Dobby

    View all on translate.wordpress.org