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Alain Schlesser

Principal Architect at Yoast

@schlessera Olzheim, Germany joined Apr 2015

alainschlesser.com github.com/schlessera Slack: @schlessera
    Teams Core CLI

    Bio

    I am a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany.

    I am the maintainer of WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress and I work on WordPress Core itself as a contributor and component maintainer.

    I offer higher-level consulting, code reviews and software design coaching, enabling companies to deal with frequent change and ever-growing complexity while optimizing for reduced maintenance effort and lower total cost of ownership.

    Passionate about software architecture and code quality, I never miss an opportunity to share best practices and try to live up to my educational aspirations through public speaking and blogging.

    You can read my thoughts on code & other things at https://www.alainschlesser.com or say hello on Twitter under the handle @schlessera.

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Core Team '20 Plugin Developer WP-CLI Contributor '17 WP-CLI Team '17
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '19
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Principal Architect
    Present
    Yoast

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    143contributions
    high132
    medium11
    score407
    Last 90 days
    629contributions
    high581
    medium48
    score1791
    Last 12 months
    1596contributions
    high1439
    medium157
    score4474

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 15 releases
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.7
    • 4.6

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 04 Thu · 14:01
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #528 into wp-cli/extension-command:
    Fix change --path parameter to --target-path parameter to avoid clashing with global…
    Jun 04 Thu · 07:36
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@4247b673a173db3133fad5f39b26a7617df918d0
    Jun 04 Thu · 07:27
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1049 merged into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 03 Wed · 09:14
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@3c6d511d32e20fa86e219cc63ebe7de97379c980
    Jun 03 Wed · 09:06
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1049 to wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 03 Wed · 09:05
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1047 merged into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 03 Wed · 08:59
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@2af1339ca0069052ad1180e4689cccfb25598d85
    Jun 02 Tue · 15:53
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/builds:
    phar build: wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle@b6c190359c523407e320509618aa34c436dfda58
    Jun 02 Tue · 15:42
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1047 to wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
    Update wp-cli framework
    Jun 02 Tue · 15:41
    GitHub high
    Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/wp-super-cache-cli:
    Update file(s) from wp-cli/.github

    Contributor

    Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish) Translation Contributor - #lb_LU

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