WordPress.org

Bio

I like to get stuff done. Husband and father of two energetic boys. Brazilian jiu-jitsu for fun and stress release.

Interests

Gaming
Brazilian jiu-jitsu

WordPress Origin Story

In 2015 I attended my first WordCamp in Cape Town, met some amazing people, discovered WordPress as a development tool, and I’ve not looked back since.

Badges

CODE

7 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '20 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '21 Meta Team '21 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

3 badges

Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '22 WordPress.tv Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

4 badges

Community Team '17 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '18

PRACTICE

3 badges

Support Contributor '26 Training Contributor '22 Training Team '23

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Developer Advocate

May 2022 – Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

23contributions

high16

medium7

score55

Last 90 days

59contributions

high34

medium25

score127

Last 12 months

294contributions

high143

medium151

score580

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 11 releases

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 30 Thu · 17:41

GitHub med

Closed issue #449 on the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin

Jul 30 Thu · 17:40

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @bph, @juanmaguitar and @greenshady for their support getting the build your first AI…

Jul 30 Thu · 17:39

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
If you've been watching the Core AI projects land and wondering how the pieces fit…

Jul 29 Wed · 06:53

Core med

Created issue #80822 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Gutenberg 23.7 release checklist

Jul 24 Fri · 06:06

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Sandbox request for learn.wordpress.org testing, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
@barry nope, all good, you can close this request.

Jul 22 Wed · 14:48

GitHub high

Pull request #69 merged into WordPress/agent-skills:
Add review request step to contribution guidelines

Jul 16 Thu · 13:51

GitHub high

Pull request #42 merged into WordPress/wp-bench:
Update README with Python version requirement

Jul 16 Thu · 11:01

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #42 to WordPress/wp-bench:
Update README with Python version requirement

Jul 12 Sun · 10:01

Training high

Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
Updating tutorial