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Evan Solomon

Growth Engineer at Automattic

@evansolomon San Francisco, CA joined Mar 2011

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    Bio

    Engineer at Medium.

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Growth Engineer
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.0
    • 5.1
    • 4.2
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2026
    Feb 04 Wed · 07:02
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61588] on WordPress SVN:
    Code Editor: Allow saving with Ctrl/Cmd+S in Theme/Plugin Editors.
    May 2018
    May 01 Tue · 02:04
    Core high
    Mentioned in [43050] on WordPress SVN:
    Cron API: Return meaningful values from cron functions.
    April 2015
    Apr 03 Fri · 02:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [31995] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes screen: remove extra debounce when searching.
    March 2015
    Mar 31 Tue · 00:41
    Core med
    Created ticket #31812 on Core Trac:
    Remove excess debounce + bind calls
    November 2013
    Nov 14 Thu · 18:40
    Core high
    Mentioned in [26169] on WordPress SVN:
    Heartbeat: clean up code style, better naming, better code structure.
    September 2013
    Sep 25 Wed · 00:46
    Core high
    Mentioned in [25617] on WordPress SVN:
    Clean up the path calculations in wp::parse_request().
    August 2013
    Aug 22 Thu · 21:58
    Core high
    Mentioned in [25093] on WordPress SVN:
    Format WordPress in tags produced by wp_title().
    Aug 21 Wed · 22:54
    Core high
    Mentioned in [25078] on WordPress SVN:
    Heartbeat: better queue functionality: improve enqueue() and isQueued(), introduce dequeue() and getQueuedItem().
    Aug 18 Sun · 19:55
    Core med
    Created ticket #25073 on Core Trac:
    Heartbeat performance and API improvements
    Aug 15 Thu · 03:51
    Core med
    Created ticket #25047 on Core Trac:
    Improve heartbeat queue checking

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