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Jake Spurlock

Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering at Automattic

@whyisjake San Francisco, CA joined Oct 2008

jakespurlock.com github.com/whyisjake Slack: @whyisjake
    Maintains Security Upgrade/Install
    Teams Core Meta

    Bio

    Jake is a lead at Automattic on the WordPress VIP team. He was the release lead on the Core Security team and led the 5.5 release.

    Interests

    Photography, WordPress, Baseball, Bikes

    WordPress Origin Story

    I got really into podcasting and needed to move away from iWeb to something a little more robust, and Joseph Scott recommended that I check out WordPress back in 2005. The rest is history!

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '16 Core Team '19 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    48contributions
    high28
    medium20
    score104
    Last 90 days
    93contributions
    high59
    medium34
    score211
    Last 12 months
    104contributions
    high68
    medium36
    score240

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 16 releases
    • 7.1
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.4
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 4.8
    • 4.7

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 15 Thu · 22:33
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1196 merged into WordPress/ai:
    Abilities Explorer: trim the comments to the ones that explain why
    Oct 15 Thu · 22:17
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1194 merged into WordPress/ai:
    Abilities Explorer: trim the tests to the behavior they guard
    Oct 15 Thu · 22:15
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1193 merged into WordPress/ai:
    Abilities Explorer: header spacing, description column, no Refresh button
    Oct 15 Thu · 21:52
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1196 to WordPress/ai:
    Abilities Explorer: trim the comments to the ones that explain why
    Oct 15 Thu · 21:50
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1195 to WordPress/ai:
    Docs: add a minimal AGENTS.md
    Oct 15 Thu · 21:17
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1194 to WordPress/ai:
    Abilities Explorer: trim the tests to the behavior they guard
    Oct 15 Thu · 20:59
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1193 to WordPress/ai:
    Abilities Explorer: header spacing, description column, no Refresh button
    Oct 14 Wed · 15:43
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Security: Use `str_starts_with()` in the Secrets API test mocks.
    Oct 14 Wed · 15:41
    Core high
    Committed [64345] to WordPress SVN:
    Security: Use `str_starts_with()` in the Secrets API test mocks.
    Oct 14 Wed · 15:11
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Security: Use `str_contains()` and `str_starts_with()` in the Secrets API.

    Developer

    10 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

    4 favorites