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Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)

Software Engineer at Automattic

@ashfame Dubai, UAE joined Jul 2007

ashfame.com github.com/ashfame Slack: @Ashish Kumar (ashfame)
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    Interests

    Programming, Psychology & Adventure sports

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '21 Meta Team '22 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    bbPress Contributor '19

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    3contributions
    high3
    medium0
    score9
    Last 90 days
    128contributions
    high50
    medium78
    score228
    Last 12 months
    223contributions
    high80
    medium143
    score383

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.5
    • 5.9
    • 4.2

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 17 Thu · 10:59
    Plugins high
    Committed [3700129] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 2.0.3 from GitHub
    Sep 17 Thu · 10:52
    Plugins high
    Committed [3700125] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 2.0.2 from GitHub
    Sep 17 Thu · 10:46
    Plugins high
    Committed [3700115] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 2.0.1 from GitHub
    August 2026
    Aug 14 Fri · 19:51
    Playground med
    Closed pull request #3415 on WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Add iOS Safari data persistence warning for personal-wp
    Aug 14 Fri · 00:12
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4260 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Persist pooled PHP writes to saved sites
    Aug 13 Thu · 21:13
    Playground med
    Closed pull request #4240 on WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Persist pooled PHP writes to saved Playground sites
    Aug 13 Thu · 16:19
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4260 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Persist pooled PHP writes to saved sites
    Aug 11 Tue · 18:00
    Playground med
    Closed issue #4257 on the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    wordpress check tool
    Aug 11 Tue · 14:18
    Playground med
    Created issue #4256 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    SQLite refresh breaks WordPress 5.0–5.4 legacy boot tests
    Aug 11 Tue · 10:16
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #199 into WordPress/try-wordpress:
    Maintain dependencies, CI, tests, and repository hygiene