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Jason Adams

Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic

@jason_the_adams Colorado Springs, CO joined Sep 2008

jason.blog github.com/JasonTheAdams Slack: @Jason Adams
    Teams Core AI

    Bio

    I’m an Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic with over 20+ years of dev experience. I have a fun and eclectic development background ranging from home automation systems, to scientific inventions, and many websites/plugins. Otherwise, I enjoy hiking with my awesome wife, rock climbing, and adventure!

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer WP-CLI Contributor '24
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Director of Engineering, AI
    Oct 2025 – Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high1
    medium1
    score4
    Last 90 days
    4contributions
    high2
    medium2
    score8
    Last 12 months
    291contributions
    high143
    medium148
    score577

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 5.7
    • 5.5
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 04 Thu · 01:10
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #22 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    Add comprehensive execution tests
    May 2026
    May 26 Tue · 22:26
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #44 into WordPress/agent-skills:
    wp-abilities-api: add three strategy-layer references (domain-vs-projection, shared-core-service, grouping-heuristic)
    April 2026
    Apr 15 Wed · 19:53
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #17 on the WordPress/ai-provider-for-google repository:
    Google AI API does not allow the `additionalProperties` key for response schemas
    Apr 15 Wed · 19:53
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #18 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-google:
    Remove `additionalProperties` from the JSON response schema
    March 2026
    Mar 03 Tue · 14:00
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61795] on WordPress SVN:
    AI: Sync `Ability_Function_Resolver` API enhancement to harden security
    Mar 01 Sun · 20:58
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61776] on WordPress SVN:
    AI: Update PHP AI Client package to 1.2.1.
    February 2026
    Feb 28 Sat · 02:54
    GitHub high
    Pull request #60 merged into WordPress/wp-ai-client:
    Prepares for 7.0 compat and transition
    Feb 27 Fri · 21:10
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #62 on WordPress/wp-ai-client:
    Update `WordPress/php-ai-client` to 1.2.0
    Feb 27 Fri · 01:39
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #210 into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Adds optional description to providers
    Feb 26 Thu · 20:19
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #60 to WordPress/wp-ai-client:
    Prepares for 7.0 compat and transition

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