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David Arenas

Software Engineer at Automattic

@darerodz joined Feb 2021

github.com/DAreRodz Slack: @darerodz
    Maintains Interactivity API
    Teams Core

    Bio

    Interactivity API component maintainer.

    Badges

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    Core Contributor '22

    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
    12contributions
    high5
    medium7
    score22
    Last 90 days
    18contributions
    high6
    medium12
    score30
    Last 12 months
    70contributions
    high30
    medium40
    score130

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 13 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 16 Fri · 14:44
    Core med
    Closed issue #81698 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Interactivity API: toVDOM walk() is slow
    Oct 16 Fri · 14:44
    Core high
    Merged pull request #81699 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Interactivity API: Optimize toVdom walk()
    Oct 16 Fri · 11:06
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #84919 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Interactivity Router: Ignore router regions and attachTo targets inside data-wp-html content
    Oct 16 Fri · 05:08
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64386] on WordPress SVN:
    Interactivity API: Add server-side processing for the `data-wp-html` directive.
    Oct 15 Thu · 13:17
    Core high
    Pull request #84652 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Interactivity API: Fix late `data-wp-html` values, throwing functions and directive conflicts
    Oct 15 Thu · 09:28
    Core med
    Closed pull request #14012 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Interactivity API: Add server-side processing for the data-wp-html directive
    Oct 15 Thu · 09:28
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #14301 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Interactivity API: Add server-side processing for the data-wp-html directive.
    Oct 13 Tue · 21:21
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #84652 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Interactivity API: Fix late `data-wp-html` values, throwing functions and directive conflicts
    Oct 05 Mon · 13:26
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #14012 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Interactivity API: Add server-side processing for the data-wp-html directive
    Oct 05 Mon · 13:14
    Core med
    Created ticket #66246 on Core Trac:
    Interactivity API: Add server-side processing for the new data-wp-html ...