Profiles

Bio

I am a Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon and have been working with WordPress since my first foray as a freelance web designer and developer specializing in 2007. Since then, I’ve worked with Event Espresso, WebDevStudios, Human Made and Altis and I wrote of a bunch of WordPress-centric online training courses for Pluralsight. When I’m not writing code (or, these days, blog posts, GitHub actions, or videos), I run and play Dungeons & Dragons, occasionally make electronic music and cheer for Utah Royals FC.

Interests

WordPress, music, role playing, plugin development, theme development, podcasting, technology, design, not necessarily in that order.

WordPress Origin Story

I blogged when blogging was called a “weblog” and it was all just html. After the birth of my son in 2005, I was looking for a way to share photos with family and needed something so I wasn’t manually creating HTML posts with a bunch of pictures. I started with a blogging platform I found on Hotscripts.com called sBlog, but was disappointed and discouraged by the lack of active development and bugfixes. WordPress seemed to be what the cool kids were using, so I tried it and haven’t looked back since.

Badges

CODE
5 badges
Core Contributor '15 Hosting Contributor '26 Hosting Team '26 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
COMMUNITY
3 badges
WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14 WordCamp Volunteer '25

Current Job

Senior Developer Advocate
Present
Pantheon

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
3contributions
high2
medium1
score7
Last 12 months
16contributions
high4
medium12
score24

Team focus

Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 4 releases
  • 6.7
  • 6.6
  • 6.5
  • 4.1

Time commitment

2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 03 Wed · 05:23
GitHub high
Merged pull request #386 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
Updated server compatibility for WordPress6.9
Jun 03 Wed · 05:23
GitHub med
Closed issue #383 on the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
Update server-environment page for WP 6.9
March 2026
Mar 11 Wed · 18:43
GitHub high
Merged pull request #305 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
Bump actions/setup-node from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 in the github-actions group
February 2026
Feb 25 Wed · 18:32
Meta high
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @jazzs3quence for doing a fantastic job running his first Hosting team meeting last…
January 2026
Jan 14 Wed · 05:46
GitHub high
Pull request #377 merged into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
Update tests.md
December 2025
Dec 17 Wed · 19:33
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #377 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
Update tests.md
Dec 01 Mon · 15:49
Forums med
Created a topic, Personalized content block only shows three variants (in addition to fallback), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The Personalized Content block only shows three varian…
November 2025
Nov 18 Tue · 16:01
Forums med
Posted a reply to SimpleSAMLphp base directory Missing Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting @meenasekar. Can you confirm whether the notice is appearing in the _admin_…
July 2025
Jul 24 Thu · 13:57
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Responsible AI workflow for creating new documentation for WordPress 6.9, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
I guess my question is > The goal of this workflow is to reduce friction…
Jul 22 Tue · 14:55
Forums med
Posted a reply to New todo tasks are not appearing in either dashboard or PP settings page widgets, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So, the issue was that I had (user-created) tasks, but new ones weren't showing up.…