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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
    high9
    medium10
    score37
    Last 90 days
    78contributions
    high52
    medium26
    score182
    Last 12 months
    360contributions
    high231
    medium129
    score822

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 6 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.5
    • 5.6
    • 5.4

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 18 Fri · 20:36
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #439 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    update team-reps.md w current info
    Sep 16 Wed · 03:18
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2026-09-16, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Next Meeting The next meetings will be in the #hosting Slack channel on and .…
    Sep 16 Wed · 03:05
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – September 16, 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…
    Sep 09 Wed · 19:44
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #429 on the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Performance page: "Static Cache" links to a section that does not exist
    Sep 09 Wed · 19:44
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #430 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Add Static Cache section to Performance page
    Sep 09 Wed · 19:37
    GitHub med
    Created issue #436 in the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Add WP-CLI commands to handbook
    Sep 09 Wed · 19:04
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #425 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Document the `hash` extension requirement
    Sep 09 Wed · 18:42
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #138 on WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    drop test tables on cleanup
    Sep 09 Wed · 02:38
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – September 9, 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…
    Sep 02 Wed · 12:54
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – September 2, 2026, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. Dev…