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Helen Hou-Sandi

Staff Software Engineering Manager, Accessibility at GitHub

@helen NYC joined Sep 2009

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    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
    4 badges
    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

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

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
    6contributions
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    score18

    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

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