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Matias Ventura

Lead Architect of Gutenberg at Automattic

@matveb Firenze joined Aug 2008

matiasventura.com github.com/mtias Slack: @matias
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    Bio

    Matías is an engineer, designer, and philosophy enthusiast from Montevideo. Member of the developer experience team at Automattic and the lead architect of the Gutenberg project in WordPress. He has been contributing to core since he co-designed the Twenty Eleven default theme. You can find him on Twitter as @matias_ventura.

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Design Contributor '19 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '19
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Lead Architect of Gutenberg
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    6contributions
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    medium6
    score6
    Last 90 days
    6contributions
    high0
    medium6
    score6
    Last 12 months
    74contributions
    high13
    medium61
    score100

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 28 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
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.1
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.4
    • 3.3
    • 3.2

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 23 Fri · 12:47
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85467 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Image: notify when several dropped files cannot become a Gallery
    Oct 23 Fri · 12:47
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85466 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Post Title: keep plain text as pasted instead of parsing it as…
    Oct 23 Fri · 11:54
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85463 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Gallery: keep the link setting when Image blocks transform into a Gallery
    Oct 23 Fri · 11:54
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85462 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block editor: end a direct block drag when dragend or drop never…
    Oct 22 Thu · 12:39
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85387 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Support attribute-only block deprecations and convert nine blocks to them
    Oct 21 Wed · 12:39
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85286 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Remove block deprecations made redundant by validation levels
    July 2026
    Jul 03 Fri · 17:44
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Costa Rica 2026
    June 2026
    Jun 15 Mon · 12:42
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2026
    May 2026
    May 20 Wed · 18:41
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”, on the site WordPress News:
    Explore AI abilities directly in your website, all managed from a central hub. Slide seamlessly…
    May 07 Thu · 11:51
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62319] on WordPress SVN:
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    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Gutenberg

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