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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
    11contributions
    high4
    medium7
    score19
    Last 90 days
    50contributions
    high19
    medium31
    score88
    Last 12 months
    75contributions
    high28
    medium47
    score131

    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
    June 2026
    Jun 11 Thu · 18:33
    Playground med
    Closed issue #3784 on the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    Jardelbarbosa401@gmail.com
    Jun 04 Thu · 16:59
    Playground med
    Created issue #3753 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    Epic: Improve CI runner speed and parallelism
    Jun 04 Thu · 14:07
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #3749 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Handle plugin proxy rate limiting
    Jun 04 Thu · 13:42
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #3751 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Preserve request host in PWA manifests
    Jun 04 Thu · 13:33
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #3750 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [Website] Handle malformed PR previewer URLs
    Jun 04 Thu · 13:02
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #3750 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [Website] Handle malformed PR previewer URLs
    Jun 04 Thu · 12:37
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #3749 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Handle plugin proxy rate limiting
    Jun 02 Tue · 14:43
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #3740 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Update Slack channel reference in contribution guidelines
    Jun 02 Tue · 14:43
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #3740 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Update Slack channel reference in contribution guidelines
    May 2026
    May 29 Fri · 19:18
    Playground med
    Closed issue #869 on the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    Documentation: Explain why theme styles added via `add_editor_style()` aren't loading when networking…