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Joe Fusco

Software Engineer, Sr at WP Engine

@joefusco Rochester, New York joined Sep 2014

josephfus.co github.com/josephfusco Slack: @joefusco
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    Bio

    Building WordPress

    Interests

    Open Source Software, Civic Tech, Access to Justice, Amateur Arborist, Dad.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started using WordPress in 2013 with version 3.5. What began as building plugins and themes for agencies led to managing multisites in higher ed, then architecting headless WordPress applications for a door manufacturer in Florida. Now I’m back home in New York, contributing to Core, sponsored by WP Engine.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Meta Contributor '16 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Software Engineer, Sr
    Present
    WP Engine · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    623contributions
    high263
    medium360
    score1149
    Last 90 days
    1552contributions
    high625
    medium927
    score2802
    Last 12 months
    1830contributions
    high753
    medium1077
    score3336

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.5
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 23 Fri · 17:20
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #887 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: write wp presence set as WP-CLI's --user, and three smaller corrections
    Oct 23 Fri · 16:47
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #889 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore: remove dead code found in a pre-release sweep
    Oct 23 Fri · 16:36
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #888 into WordPress/presence-api:
    docs: correct comments that drifted from the code
    Oct 23 Fri · 16:15
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #889 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore: remove dead code found in a pre-release sweep
    Oct 23 Fri · 16:12
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #888 to WordPress/presence-api:
    docs: correct comments that drifted from the code
    Oct 23 Fri · 16:09
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #887 to WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: write wp presence set as WP-CLI's --user, and three smaller corrections
    Oct 23 Fri · 15:31
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #870 into WordPress/presence-api:
    test: assert a REST settings save with no group bumps no screen…
    Oct 23 Fri · 15:05
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #885 into WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: restore the Playwright package cache from any image or version
    Oct 23 Fri · 14:57
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #886 into WordPress/presence-api:
    test: keep the admin bar's first-post-room test from depending on the clock
    Oct 22 Thu · 16:29
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #886 to WordPress/presence-api:
    test: keep the admin bar's first-post-room test from depending on the clock