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Amy Kamala

@amykamala Santa Monica, CA joined Dec 2018

kittenkamala.com github.com/kittenkamala Slack: @amy
    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
    16contributions
    high11
    medium5
    score38
    Last 90 days
    64contributions
    high41
    medium23
    score146
    Last 12 months
    365contributions
    high234
    medium131
    score833

    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
    October 2026
    Oct 07 Wed · 21:25
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #350 on the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
    host-tests failing since r63983 (missing/invalid jQuery paths?)
    Oct 07 Wed · 21:24
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #351 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Run the development build during prepare
    Oct 07 Wed · 18:53
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #221 on WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Add silly debug flags for npm debugging
    Oct 07 Wed · 18:52
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #340 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Run npm verbosely when debug mode is enabled
    Oct 07 Wed · 04:39
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2026-10-07, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Next Meeting The next meetings will be in the #hosting Slack channel on and .…
    Oct 07 Wed · 00:40
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – October 7, 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…
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 00:19
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – September 30, 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 30 Wed · 00:14
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2026-09-30, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Next Meeting The next meetings will be in the #hosting Slack channel on and .…
    Sep 30 Wed · 00:03
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Increased security on Hosting team repositories, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    For years, Hosting team contributors have followed team protocols without issue, and that speaks very…
    Sep 23 Wed · 19:19
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #439 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    update team-reps.md w current info