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Amy Kamala

@amykamala Santa Monica, CA joined Dec 2018

kittenkamala.com github.com/kittenkamala Slack: @amy
    Team Rep Core Hosting
    Teams Core Hosting

    Bio

    Core Team Rep 2026
    Hosting Team Rep 2026

    WordPress contributions sponsored by Elementor!

    Tech nerd + artist. Full stack web dev with team leadership and project management experience, with some UIUX and product development mixed in. MFA from UCLA.

    Past contributions:
    Release Coordinator WordPress 6.9 and 7.0
    Hosting Team Rep 2019-2023
    Tech Lead Cohort contributor WP 5.6
    WPLA MeetUps organizer (but not currently hosting events)
    Release Model Working Group 2019-2020
    WordCamp LA organizer 2020
    Spoken at and/or helped with contributor day tables at a few camps and meetups including: WCAsia, WCEU, WCUS, WC Las Vegas, WC/WP Santa Clarita, WC/WP LA
    Previous sponsors include DreamHost, InMotion Hosting, Kanopi Studios

    Interests

    art, crafts, animals, animation, gardening, baking, hiking, yoga, sci-fi, non-fiction reading, theology, technology

    WordPress Origin Story

    I found my way to WordPress.org through working technical support at a web host. <3

    I've worked at 3 different web hosts in a technical and/or team lead capacity and am well versed in hosting infra, standards and practices.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '20 Core Team '25 Hosting Contributor '19 Hosting Team '19
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '26
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '20 WordCamp Speaker '20

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    24contributions
    high16
    medium8
    score56
    Last 90 days
    74contributions
    high46
    medium28
    score166
    Last 12 months
    375contributions
    high241
    medium134
    score857

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 6 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.5
    • 5.6
    • 5.4

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 22 Thu · 00:30
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #354 on the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
    A database password with a quote or a backslash breaks wp-tests-config.php
    Oct 22 Thu · 00:30
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #355 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Escape the database settings written into wp-tests-config.php
    Oct 21 Wed · 18:44
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #335 on the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
    Error: Error uploading results: Invalid parameter(s): message (HTTP status 400)`
    Oct 21 Wed · 18:44
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #343 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Report the first line of text from the commit message
    Oct 21 Wed · 05:47
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2026-10-21, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Next Meeting The next meetings will be in the #hosting Slack channel on and .…
    Oct 21 Wed · 04:10
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – October 21, 2026, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The…
    Oct 15 Thu · 00:27
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #433 on the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Annotate short-lived DB versions with EOL dates in the compatibility table
    Oct 15 Thu · 00:27
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #499 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Compatibility: annotate short-lived MySQL and MariaDB versions with EOL dates
    Oct 14 Wed · 23:52
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #44 on the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Commit guidelines
    Oct 14 Wed · 23:52
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #500 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Add a review checklist to CONTRIBUTING.md