Profiles

Bio

I like to get stuff done. Husband and father of two energetic boys. Brazilian jiu-jitsu for fun and stress release.

Interests

Gaming
Brazilian jiu-jitsu

WordPress Origin Story

In 2015 I attended my first WordCamp in Cape Town, met some amazing people, discovered WordPress as a development tool, and I’ve not looked back since.

Badges

CODE
7 badges
C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '20 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '21 Meta Team '21 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
3 badges
Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '22 WordPress.tv Contributor '23
COMMUNITY
4 badges
Community Team '17 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '18
PRACTICE
3 badges
Support Contributor '26 Training Contributor '22 Training Team '23
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Developer Advocate
May 2022 – Present
Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
42contributions
high29
medium13
score100
Last 90 days
53contributions
high36
medium17
score125
Last 12 months
267contributions
high147
medium120
score561

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 12 releases
  • 7.1
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6
  • 6.5
  • 6.2
  • 6.1
  • 5.9
  • 5.6
  • 5.5

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type
October 2026
Oct 23 Fri · 10:10
Meta high
Wrote a new post, WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-23, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This week was more of a maintenance week: 24 PRs merged, 23 of them Dependabot…
Oct 23 Fri · 08:53
GitHub high
Merged pull request #648 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
Adding a note to the readme about the demo code plugin
Oct 23 Fri · 08:46
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #648 to WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
Adding a note to the readme about the demo code plugin
Oct 23 Fri · 08:21
Meta high
Gave props in Slack:
Props @masteradhoc for moving all the # Dependabot PRs forward!
Oct 23 Fri · 08:17
GitHub high
Merged pull request #636 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump follow-redirects from 1.16.0 to 1.16.1
Oct 23 Fri · 07:58
GitHub high
Merged pull request #646 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump eslint-import-resolver-typescript from 4.4.4 to 4.4.5
Oct 23 Fri · 07:57
GitHub med
Closed issue #607 on the WordPress/wp-feature-notifications repository:
Clean up dependabot PRs
Oct 23 Fri · 07:36
GitHub high
Merged pull request #623 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump compression from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
Oct 23 Fri · 06:47
GitHub high
Merged pull request #621 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump handlebars from 4.7.9 to 4.7.10
Oct 22 Thu · 18:42
GitHub high
Merged pull request #620 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump proxy-addr from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8

Developer

7 plugins

Contributor

2 plugins

Completed courses

8 completed

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Translations

2 locales
af Afrikaans Translation Contributor
en_ZA English (South Africa) (English) Translation Contributor