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James LePage

Engineering Director at Automattic AI

@isotropic NYC joined Mar 2020

j.cv github.com/Jameswlepage Slack: @James LePage
    Teams Core AI Core

    Bio

    Head of AI at Automattic. Core AI co-lead and founder. Previously ran WPAI (Startup) and a WordPress agency (called Isotropic).

    Interests

    Building things
    AI
    Climbing
    Corvettes
    Running

    WordPress Origin Story

    James LePage is a digital founder, developer, designer, and generalist currently leading the AI Division at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. With over 10 years in the WordPress ecosystem that began with freelancing, he has cofounded several venture-backed companies, including WPAI (acquired by Automattic in 2024) and ShareClub, and previously ran the digital agency Isotropic. With a background in entrepreneurship and AI from Syracuse University, James combines technical expertise with interests in backpacking, distance running, classic cars, and music from his base in NYC.

    Badges

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    4 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '25 Core Contributor '25 Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Engineering Director
    Present
    Automattic AI

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
    high3
    medium2
    score11
    Last 12 months
    82contributions
    high33
    medium49
    score148

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 18 Mon · 08:33
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Leadership transition for the Core AI team, on the site WordPress AI:
    The Core AI team is transitioning leadership. Felix Arntz (@flixos90) and I have served as…
    May 06 Wed · 16:34
    GitHub high
    Pull request #155 merged into WordPress/ai:
    Add Comment Moderation experiment
    April 2026
    Apr 16 Thu · 19:10
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #21 into WordPress/wp-bench:
    [codex] Fix knowledge scoring and Anthropic Opus 4.7 compatibility
    Apr 16 Thu · 15:05
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #21 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    [codex] Fix knowledge scoring and Anthropic Opus 4.7 compatibility
    March 2026
    Mar 23 Mon · 18:12
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Big Picture Goals for 2026, on the site WordPress.org Project:
    Hi. I'd like to better understand what makes you think this - it's not accurate…
    Mar 05 Thu · 02:11
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #269 on WordPress/ai:
    feat: add extended providers with WP 7.0 Connectors integration
    Mar 05 Thu · 02:10
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #269 to WordPress/ai:
    feat: add extended providers with WP 7.0 Connectors integration
    February 2026
    Feb 26 Thu · 00:26
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #75934 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Connectors: Redesign connector items as collapsible cards
    Feb 23 Mon · 19:11
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Content Guidelines: A Gutenberg Experiment, on the site WordPress AI:
    To track, please explore and share your ideas on https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/75171
    Feb 21 Sat · 19:41
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #5 into WordPress/anthropic-ai-provider:
    Rename project to AI Provider for Anthropic

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