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Amy Kamala

@amykamala Santa Monica, CA joined Dec 2018

kittenkamala.com github.com/kittenkamala Slack: @amykamala
    Team Rep Core Hosting
    Teams Core Hosting

    Bio

    Core Team Rep 2026
    Hosting Team Rep 2026

    WordPress contributions sponsored by Elementor!

    Tech nerd + artist. Full stack web dev with team leadership and project management experience, with some UIUX and product development mixed in. MFA from UCLA.

    Past contributions:
    Release Coordinator WordPress 6.9 and 7.0
    Hosting Team Rep 2019-2023
    Tech Lead Cohort contributor WP 5.6
    WPLA MeetUps organizer (but not currently hosting events)
    Release Model Working Group 2019-2020
    WordCamp LA organizer 2020
    Spoken at and/or helped with contributor day tables at a few camps and meetups including: WCAsia, WCEU, WCUS, WC Las Vegas, WC/WP Santa Clarita, WC/WP LA
    Previous sponsors include DreamHost, InMotion Hosting, Kanopi Studios

    Interests

    art, crafts, animals, animation, gardening, baking, hiking, yoga, sci-fi, non-fiction reading, theology, technology

    WordPress Origin Story

    I found my way to WordPress.org through working technical support at a web host. <3

    I've worked at 3 different web hosts in a technical and/or team lead capacity and am well versed in hosting infra, standards and practices.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '20 Core Team '25 Hosting Contributor '19 Hosting Team '19
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '26
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '20 WordCamp Speaker '20

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    19contributions
    high12
    medium7
    score43
    Last 90 days
    96contributions
    high60
    medium36
    score216
    Last 12 months
    376contributions
    high234
    medium142
    score844

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.5
    • 5.6
    • 5.4

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 12 Wed · 22:24
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #208 on the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
    Undefined constant "DB_HOST" Latest Pull
    Aug 12 Wed · 22:16
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #265 on the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
    `WPT_CERTIFICATE_VALIDATION` is processed but never used
    Aug 12 Wed · 22:14
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #310 on the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
    host-test unable to report results as of r62226 (simplexml load failing of…
    Aug 12 Wed · 18:48
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #499 on the WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook repository:
    Incorrect link in the backup files instructions online
    Aug 12 Wed · 18:43
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #396 on the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Roll Call: WCEU 2026 Contributor Day
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:27
    Meta high
    Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
    Props to @Benjamin_Zekavica and @amykamala for their support during the 7.1 RC3 release. :heart:
    Aug 12 Wed · 08:32
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2026-08-12, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Next Meeting The next meetings will be in the #hosting channel on and . Hope…
    Aug 11 Tue · 04:24
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – August 11, 2026, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The…
    Aug 05 Wed · 20:36
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #331 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates
    Aug 05 Wed · 18:56
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #326 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Fixed lint errors