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Weston Ruter

Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine

@westonruter Portland, OR, USA joined May 2007

weston.ruter.net github.com/westonruter Slack: @westonruter
    Teams Core Core Performance

    Bio

    Working on making WordPress fast!

    WordPress Origin Story

    See https://weston.ruter.net/?p=34264

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '23 C Core Performance Team '23 Core Team '15 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '25 WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Principal Software Engineer
    Aug 2025 – Present
    WP Engine

    Job History

    Developer Relations Engineer
    Oct 2018 – Jun 2025
    Google
    Head of WordPress => CTO
    Apr 2013 – Sep 2018
    XWP
    Senior Web Developer
    May 2010 – Apr 2013
    X-Team
    Note: My role transitioned from X-Team to our newly-founded sister company, XWP.
    Sr. Web Application Developer
    Oct 2007 – May 2010
    Shepherd Interactive

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    144contributions
    high95
    medium49
    score334
    Last 90 days
    364contributions
    high250
    medium114
    score864
    Last 12 months
    1666contributions
    high1095
    medium571
    score3856

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 30 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 3.8
    • 3.7

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 06 Sat · 17:33
    Core med
    Closed pull request #2522 on WordPress/performance:
    Avoid forcing Imagick-only editor when Imagick lacks core format support
    Jun 06 Sat · 17:26
    Core med
    Closed pull request #11883 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Fix rest_is_integer validation logic
    Jun 06 Sat · 12:16
    Core med
    Closed issue #2520 on the WordPress/performance repository:
    `wp-env`: VS Code editor throws `Location is untrusted` error for `.wp-env.json` schema
    Jun 06 Sat · 11:07
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65298 on Core Trac:
    Searched text is not cleared from the Library search bar after refresh
    Jun 06 Sat · 11:07
    Core high
    Committed [62470] to WordPress SVN:
    Media: Reset the URL search parameter when the grid view search is cleared.
    Jun 05 Fri · 13:11
    Core high
    Merged pull request #2509 into WordPress/performance:
    Bump the wordpress-packages group across 1 directory with 3 updates
    Jun 05 Fri · 08:14
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62466] on WordPress SVN:
    Emoji: Update the Twemoji library to version `17.0.3`.
    Jun 04 Thu · 14:20
    Core med
    Closed issue #2354 on the WordPress/performance repository:
    Bump minimum WordPress version to at least 6.7 (Yes, “SIX SEVEN”) but…
    Jun 04 Thu · 14:20
    Core high
    Merged pull request #2517 into WordPress/performance:
    Bump minimum required WordPress version to 6.9
    Jun 04 Thu · 13:52
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #2517 to WordPress/performance:
    Bump minimum required WordPress version to 6.9

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