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David Levine

Director of Growth Engineering at rtCamp

@justlevine Tel Aviv joined Jun 2011

github.com/sponsors/axewp github.com/justlevine Slack: @justlevine
    Maintains Abilities API
    Teams Core AI Core

    Bio

    Core AI Team | Engineering Lead @ rtCamp | Principal @ AxePress

    NGO consultant-turned-PHP/WordPress developer, specializing in enterprise, headless, and hype-free AI usage.

    —
    Big thank you to Elementor for sponsoring ~10 hours/week on the Core AI team 🙏

    WordPress Origin Story

    2006 – Created my first WordPress blog, since blogspot wouldn’t let me block my friends’ parents.
    2008 – First paid WordPress project, a classmate with a phone refurb hustle who paid with a refurbished iPhone.
    2011 – First time hiring and managing a WordPress project, for a university school I was launching.
    2016 – I realized I prefer solving problems to describing them and pivoted from management to engineering.
    2019 – My first code commit to WPGraphQL.
    2024 – Graduated the WordPress Contributor Mentorship cohort as “All-star Mentee” in the, and first code contribution to WordPress core.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Director of Growth Engineering
    Present
    rtCamp

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    42contributions
    high34
    medium8
    score110
    Last 90 days
    80contributions
    high56
    medium24
    score192
    Last 12 months
    252contributions
    high142
    medium110
    score536

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 10 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.2
    • 5.6
    • 5.5

    Time commitment

    12 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 25 Sun · 05:55
    Core high
    Pull request #68401 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    fix: incorrect conditional check in WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg::convert_variables_to_values()
    Oct 25 Sun · 05:38
    Core high
    Pull request #68389 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    fix: ensure `base_convert()` is type `int` before division
    Oct 21 Wed · 20:12
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #406 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps): bump simple-git and @wordpress/env
    Oct 21 Wed · 20:02
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #405 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump follow-redirects from 1.16.0 to 1.16.1
    Oct 21 Wed · 20:02
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #404 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    chore(ci): bump shivammathur/setup-php from 2.37.2 to 2.40.0 in the github-actions-updates group
    Oct 21 Wed · 20:02
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #403 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump phpstan/phpstan from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 in the composer-dev-minor-patch group
    Oct 17 Sat · 16:45
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64438] on WordPress SVN:
    Connectors: Preload the screen's REST API responses.
    Oct 16 Fri · 13:46
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #388 on the WordPress/mcp-adapter repository:
    Another version of MCP Adapter is already loaded and may cause conflicts.…
    Oct 16 Fri · 13:06
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #393 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump source-map-js from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
    Oct 16 Fri · 13:05
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #392 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump compression from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Completed courses

    2 completed

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