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Brandon Payton

Software Engineer at Automattic

@bpayton Hamilton, IN joined May 2017

github.com/brandonpayton Slack: @Brandon Payton
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    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '17 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '18 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    47contributions
    high47
    medium0
    score141
    Last 90 days
    184contributions
    high158
    medium26
    score500
    Last 12 months
    393contributions
    high242
    medium151
    score877

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 7 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.3
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.1
    • 5.0

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 06 Sat · 10:57
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jun 05 Fri · 11:27
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jun 04 Thu · 11:27
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jun 03 Wed · 11:59
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jun 02 Tue · 11:50
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jun 01 Mon · 12:21
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jun 01 Mon · 11:23
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Jun 01 Mon · 11:06
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.36
    May 2026
    May 31 Sun · 11:05
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    May 30 Sat · 10:53
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin

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