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Brandon Payton

Software Engineer at Automattic

@bpayton Hamilton, IN joined May 2017

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    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '17 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '18 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    29contributions
    high21
    medium8
    score71
    Last 90 days
    92contributions
    high73
    medium19
    score238
    Last 12 months
    468contributions
    high358
    medium110
    score1184

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.3
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 24 Sat · 16:14
    Playground med
    Closed pull request #4513 on WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    WP Cloud: Reject server requests for scoped WordPress URLs
    Oct 23 Fri · 21:20
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4513 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    WP Cloud: Reject server requests for scoped WordPress URLs
    Oct 23 Fri · 14:53
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4506 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Harden PHP CORS proxy header filtering
    Oct 20 Tue · 15:58
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Recompile WordPress major and beta versions
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:17
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:01
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.60
    Oct 20 Tue · 09:25
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Oct 19 Mon · 09:53
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Oct 19 Mon · 09:38
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.59
    Oct 15 Thu · 09:06
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4416 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    CORS proxy: pin validated destinations on custom ports

    Developer

    2 plugins