Profiles

Bio

I like to get stuff done. Husband and father of two energetic boys. Brazilian jiu-jitsu for fun and stress release.

Interests

Gaming
Brazilian jiu-jitsu

WordPress Origin Story

In 2015 I attended my first WordCamp in Cape Town, met some amazing people, discovered WordPress as a development tool, and I’ve not looked back since.

Badges

CODE
7 badges
C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '20 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '21 Meta Team '21 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
3 badges
Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '22 WordPress.tv Contributor '23
COMMUNITY
4 badges
Community Team '17 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '18
PRACTICE
3 badges
Support Contributor '26 Training Contributor '22 Training Team '23
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Developer Advocate
May 2022 – Present
Automattic

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
38contributions
high22
medium16
score82
Last 12 months
269contributions
high143
medium126
score555

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 12 releases
  • 7.1
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6
  • 6.5
  • 6.2
  • 6.1
  • 5.9
  • 5.6
  • 5.5

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type
October 2026
Oct 21 Wed · 13:13
GitHub high
Merged pull request #596 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump immutable from 5.1.5 to 5.1.9
Oct 21 Wed · 12:53
GitHub high
Merged pull request #593 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump postcss from 8.5.14 to 8.5.31
Oct 21 Wed · 12:22
GitHub high
Merged pull request #574 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump websocket-driver from 0.7.4 to 0.7.5
Oct 21 Wed · 12:00
GitHub high
Merged pull request #573 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump ws from 6.2.3 to 6.2.6
Oct 21 Wed · 11:11
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post From Abilities to AI Agents: Introducing the WordPress MCP Adapter, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
Abilities support the same user roles and capabilities as regular WordPress users, so it's possible…
Oct 21 Wed · 11:11
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
I haven't seen this in the wild, but that's only because I haven't inspected every…
Oct 20 Tue · 13:16
GitHub high
Merged pull request #569 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump tar from 6.2.0 to 6.2.1
Oct 20 Tue · 12:33
GitHub high
Merged pull request #565 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump launch-editor from 2.13.2 to 2.14.2
Oct 16 Fri · 13:32
GitHub high
Merged pull request #562 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump serialize-javascript from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2
Oct 16 Fri · 13:26
GitHub high
Merged pull request #557 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump simple-git from 3.17.0 to 3.36.0

Developer

7 plugins

Contributor

2 plugins

Completed courses

8 completed

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Translations

2 locales
af Afrikaans Translation Contributor
en_ZA English (South Africa) (English) Translation Contributor