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Jason Adams

Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic

@jason_the_adams Colorado Springs, CO joined Sep 2008

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    Bio

    I’m an Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic with over 20+ years of dev experience. I have a fun and eclectic development background ranging from home automation systems, to scientific inventions, and many websites/plugins. Otherwise, I enjoy hiking with my awesome wife, rock climbing, and adventure!

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer WP-CLI Contributor '24
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Director of Engineering, AI
    Oct 2025 – Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    15contributions
    high9
    medium6
    score33
    Last 90 days
    31contributions
    high17
    medium14
    score65
    Last 12 months
    260contributions
    high125
    medium135
    score510

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 5.7
    • 5.5
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 23 Fri · 02:53
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #75 into WordPress/wp-bench:
    build(deps): bump the uv group across 1 directory with 4 updates
    Oct 23 Fri · 02:27
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #78 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    feat: define one public benchmark release contract
    Oct 22 Thu · 18:29
    GitHub high
    Pull request #77 merged into WordPress/wp-bench:
    refactor: share execution preservation snapshots
    Oct 22 Thu · 17:28
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #77 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    refactor: share execution preservation snapshots
    Oct 22 Thu · 00:16
    GitHub high
    Pull request #71 merged into WordPress/wp-bench:
    Add WP-CLI workflow execution suite
    Oct 16 Fri · 10:28
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64388] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities API: Add the `core/content-query` ability.
    Oct 14 Wed · 18:47
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64346] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities API: Add the `core/users-query` ability.
    Oct 13 Tue · 09:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64327] on WordPress SVN:
    AI: Introduce support for generating embeddings
    Oct 12 Mon · 11:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64311] on WordPress SVN:
    Core Abilities: Add the `core/settings-get` ability.
    Oct 07 Wed · 14:53
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #71 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    Add WP-CLI workflow execution suite

    Contributor

    4 plugins

    Support Rep

    4 plugins

    Plugins

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