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Gopal Krishnan

Senior Software Developer at Automattic

@ingeniumed Sydney, Australia joined Dec 2022

gkrishnan.blog github.com/ingeniumed Slack: @ingeniumed
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    Bio

    I’m Gopal, and I work at Automattic as a Senior Software Developer.

    I’m a Canadian living in Australia who is super passionate about open source software.

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    Current Job

    Senior Software Developer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    29contributions
    high16
    medium13
    score61
    Last 12 months
    119contributions
    high53
    medium66
    score225

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.4
    • 6.2

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 19 Tue · 18:22
    Core high
    Pull request #76796 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Sync the content even if its a function
    April 2026
    Apr 09 Thu · 00:46
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Real-Time Collaboration in the Block Editor, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Apologies for the late response on this. Thanks for asking this question, as it's an…
    Apr 08 Wed · 12:42
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62220] on WordPress SVN:
    Block Hooks: Set ignored blocks meta in REST API response.
    Apr 08 Wed · 12:24
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62219] on WordPress SVN:
    Block Hooks: Set ignored blocks meta in REST API response.
    Apr 07 Tue · 22:50
    Core high
    Merged pull request #77084 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Respect WP_ALLOW_COLLABORATION in Gutenberg for activation hook
    Apr 07 Tue · 22:15
    Core high
    Merged pull request #76853 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Change SyncConnectionModal to isSyncConnectionErrorHandled filter and drop IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN check
    Apr 07 Tue · 06:18
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #77084 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Respect WP_ALLOW_COLLABORATION in Gutenberg for activation hook
    Apr 07 Tue · 04:27
    Core med
    Closed pull request #76895 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Fix Block Hooks auto-inserted blocks duplication on collaboration
    March 2026
    Mar 30 Mon · 23:02
    Core high
    Merged pull request #76716 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add backport for WP_ALLOW_COLLABORATION
    Mar 30 Mon · 01:03
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #76895 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Fix Block Hooks auto-inserted blocks duplication on collaboration