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Brandon Payton

Software Engineer at Automattic

@bpayton Hamilton, IN joined May 2017

github.com/brandonpayton Slack: @Brandon Payton
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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
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    WordCamp Speaker '18

    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
    45contributions
    high35
    medium10
    score115
    Last 90 days
    149contributions
    high133
    medium16
    score415
    Last 12 months
    445contributions
    high316
    medium129
    score1077

    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
    August 2026
    Aug 07 Fri · 01:44
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4251 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Replace Comlink in Playground CLI with lifecycle-aware RPC
    Aug 06 Thu · 23:34
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4249 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Prevent storage E2E retries from canceling CI
    Aug 05 Wed · 17:28
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4249 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Prevent storage E2E retries from canceling CI
    Aug 05 Wed · 15:46
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Recompile WordPress major and beta versions
    Aug 04 Tue · 10:11
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Aug 03 Mon · 10:51
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Aug 03 Mon · 10:34
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.48
    July 2026
    Jul 31 Fri · 18:11
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4217 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Support filtered saved-site ZIP exports
    Jul 29 Wed · 16:12
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Recompile WordPress major and beta versions
    Jul 28 Tue · 10:07
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin

    Developer

    2 plugins