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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
    18contributions
    high1
    medium17
    score20
    Last 90 days
    53contributions
    high16
    medium37
    score85
    Last 12 months
    90contributions
    high28
    medium62
    score146

    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
    July 2026
    Jul 06 Mon · 22:03
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #9 on WordPress/experimental-wp-dev-env:
    Fix dev server startup failure caused by gutenberg-sync task
    Jul 06 Mon · 21:46
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #10 on the WordPress/experimental-wp-dev-env repository:
    Site setup doesn't finish
    Jul 06 Mon · 21:00
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #28 to WordPress/experimental-wp-dev-env:
    Harden Windows signing verification in CI
    Jul 06 Mon · 20:59
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #27 to WordPress/experimental-wp-dev-env:
    Harden Azure signing hook execution
    Jul 06 Mon · 16:41
    Playground med
    Closed pull request #3751 on WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Preserve request host in PWA manifests
    Jul 06 Mon · 14:42
    Playground med
    Closed pull request #3295 on WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    serve synthetic responses for WP's housekeeping endpoints
    Jul 03 Fri · 06:09
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #3882 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [codex] Fix isomorphic-git browser bundle
    Jul 02 Thu · 23:11
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #3874 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [Website] Add E2E coverage for playground-zip import regressions
    Jul 01 Wed · 10:14
    Playground high
    Pull request #3847 merged into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [Website] Delay .zip Playground imports until OPFS sync is finished
    June 2026
    Jun 30 Tue · 18:47
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #3848 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [Blueprints] Harden WordPress file imports