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Brandon Payton

Software Engineer at Automattic

@bpayton Hamilton, IN joined May 2017

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    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '17 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '18 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    56contributions
    high51
    medium5
    score158
    Last 90 days
    167contributions
    high157
    medium10
    score481
    Last 12 months
    434contributions
    high290
    medium144
    score1014

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.3
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 07 Tue · 11:18
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jul 06 Mon · 11:49
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jul 06 Mon · 11:13
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Jul 06 Mon · 10:54
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.44
    Jul 05 Sun · 10:59
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jul 04 Sat · 10:54
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jul 04 Sat · 00:42
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jul 03 Fri · 20:36
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #3829 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Fixed file browser covering the navigation
    Jul 03 Fri · 11:11
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Jul 02 Thu · 01:26
    Playground med
    Closed issue #3721 on the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    CLI server can select an occupied ephemeral port when started with port…

    Developer

    2 plugins