David Levine (@justlevine) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Core AI Team | Engineering Lead @ rtCamp | Principal @ AxePress

NGO consultant-turned-PHP/WordPress developer, specializing in enterprise, headless, and hype-free AI usage.

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Big thank you to Elementor for sponsoring ~10 hours/week on the Core AI team 🙏

WordPress Origin Story

2006 – Created my first WordPress blog, since blogspot wouldn’t let me block my friends’ parents.
2008 – First paid WordPress project, a classmate with a phone refurb hustle who paid with a refurbished iPhone.
2011 – First time hiring and managing a WordPress project, for a university school I was launching.
2016 – I realized I prefer solving problems to describing them and pivoted from management to engineering.
2019 – My first code commit to WPGraphQL.
2024 – Graduated the WordPress Contributor Mentorship cohort as “All-star Mentee” in the, and first code contribution to WordPress core.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '26

Current Job

Engineering Lead | Product Lead | Senior Software Engineer

Present

rtCamp

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

28contributions

high16

medium12

score60

Last 90 days

72contributions

high38

medium34

score148

Last 12 months

274contributions

high130

medium144

score534

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 9 releases

Time commitment

12 hours per week

Elementor 10 hrs/wk
On my own time 2 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 25 Thu · 22:12

GitHub med

Created issue #257 in the WordPress/php-ai-client repository:
Code Quality: Enforce FQCN in doc-blocks to fix downstream type hints

Jun 25 Thu · 22:02

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #777 to WordPress/ai:
dev: Update Composer deps and remediate PHPStan smells

Jun 25 Thu · 13:19

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Join us at the WordCamp US 2026 AI Team booth!, on the site WordPress AI:
Following an amazing and insightful WordCamp Europe, we’re happy to announce that the Core AI…

Jun 25 Thu · 12:56

Meta high

Wrote a new post, WCEU 2026 – Retrospective, on the site WordPress AI:
AI was front and center at WordCamp Europe, starting with a Contributor Day that brought…

Jun 24 Wed · 21:56

GitHub med

Closed issue #116 on the WordPress/mcp-adapter repository:
Empty object {} parameters fails InputValidator with "input is not of type…

Jun 24 Wed · 21:31

GitHub med

Closed issue #101 on the WordPress/mcp-adapter repository:
Update WordPress minimum version requirement to 6.9

Jun 23 Tue · 19:36

GitHub high

Merged pull request #219 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump the composer-dev-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 2 updates

Jun 23 Tue · 19:35

GitHub high

Merged pull request #221 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump the npm-dev-minor-patch group with 3 updates

Jun 23 Tue · 19:31

GitHub high

Merged pull request #220 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
chore(ci): bump wordpress/plugin-check-action from 1.1.6 to 1.1.7 in the github-actions-updates group

Jun 21 Sun · 23:13

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Roadmap to 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@annezazu thanks for the follow-up 🙇 with @jorgefilipecosta working on new core abilities. Yes, those…