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Joe Fusco

Software Engineer, Sr at WP Engine

@joefusco Rochester, New York joined Sep 2014

josephfus.co github.com/josephfusco Slack: @joefusco
    Teams Core

    Bio

    Building WordPress

    Interests

    Open Source Software, Civic Tech, Access to Justice, Amateur Arborist, Dad.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started using WordPress in 2013 with version 3.5. What began as building plugins and themes for agencies led to managing multisites in higher ed, then architecting headless WordPress applications for a door manufacturer in Florida. Now I’m back home in New York, contributing to Core, sponsored by WP Engine.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Meta Contributor '16 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Software Engineer, Sr
    Present
    WP Engine · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    235contributions
    high119
    medium116
    score473
    Last 90 days
    318contributions
    high157
    medium161
    score632
    Last 12 months
    368contributions
    high181
    medium187
    score730

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.5
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:52
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #200 into WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: remove --no-audit from phpunit workflow
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:52
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #200 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: remove --no-audit from phpunit workflow
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:35
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #199 into WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: ignore phpcs advisory in composer.json, revert --no-audit flag
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:35
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #199 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: ignore phpcs advisory in composer.json, revert --no-audit flag
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:08
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #153 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Releases stall because merge commit subjects are not conventional
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:08
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #140 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Include display_name and avatar_url in the presence REST response
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:06
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #159 into WordPress/presence-api:
    feat: add display_name and avatar_url to presence response
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:04
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #135 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Move inline heartbeat JS to a standalone enqueued script
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:04
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #13 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Document the existing Presence API extension points
    Aug 08 Sat · 02:04
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #154 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    admin/online room name is hardcoded in eight places