Profiles

Bio

I’m the Staff Software Engineering Manager for Accessibility at GitHub and a Lead Developer for the WordPress project. Previously the Director of Open Source Initiatives at 10up.

Interests

Cooking, open source, new music (as in contemporary classical), old school and third coast hip hop

Badges

CODE
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Core Contributor '15 Core Team '14 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
1 badge
Documentation Contributor '16
COMMUNITY
2 badges
bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

Current Job

Staff Software Engineering Manager, Accessibility
Present
GitHub

Recent impact

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Last 90 days
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Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 26 releases
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.5
  • 6.4
  • 6.3
  • 6.2
  • 6.1
  • 6.0
  • 5.8
  • 5.7
  • 5.6
  • 5.5
  • 5.3
  • 5.1
  • 5.0
  • 4.1
  • 4.0
  • 3.9
  • 3.8
  • 3.7
  • 3.6
  • 3.5
  • 3.4
  • 3.2

Contributions

Type
December 2025
Dec 08 Mon · 21:53
Core high
Mentioned in [61360] on WordPress SVN:
Posts, Post Types: Only set default title for custom post types if they have title support.
September 2025
Sep 23 Tue · 03:34
Core high
Mentioned in [60793] on WordPress SVN:
Charset: Improve UTF-8 scrubbing ability via new UTF-8 scanning pipeline.
August 2025
Aug 27 Wed · 15:13
Core med
Closed ticket #63120 on Core Trac:
Emojis in plugin titles render in front of text characters
Aug 27 Wed · 15:13
Core high
Committed [60683] to WordPress SVN:
Updates: Ensure theme screenshots are positioned correctly.
Aug 27 Wed · 00:02
Core med
Closed ticket #63120 on Core Trac:
Emojis in plugin titles render in front of text characters
Aug 27 Wed · 00:01
Core high
Committed [60680] to WordPress SVN:
Plugins: Ensure only plugin icons are floated.
January 2025
Jan 22 Wed · 23:29
Core high
Mentioned in [59691] on WordPress SVN:
Docs: Clarify the purpose of post date/time functions.
Jan 22 Wed · 22:31
Core high
Mentioned in [59690] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Remove useless arrow icon from WordPress admin menu.
September 2024
Sep 17 Tue · 23:48
Core high
Committed [59043] to WordPress SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Give more context and warning about editing compat.php.
Sep 17 Tue · 23:11
Core med
Closed ticket #22976 on Core Trac:
Remove reference to category to tag converter from the tools page

Developer

Contributor