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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
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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
    32contributions
    high26
    medium6
    score84
    Last 90 days
    132contributions
    high110
    medium22
    score352
    Last 12 months
    450contributions
    high333
    medium117
    score1116

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.1
    • 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
    September 2026
    Sep 05 Sat · 03:06
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4308 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Only render same-origin blob: URLs in the editor iframe's empty.html
    Sep 04 Fri · 18:31
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4308 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Only render same-origin blob: URLs in the editor iframe's empty.html
    Sep 01 Tue · 09:24
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Sep 01 Tue · 01:12
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4289 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [i18n] Add Bengali (bn) translation for the troubleshooting page
    August 2026
    Aug 31 Mon · 22:46
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #3724 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [Docs] Add GitHub UI documentation contribution guide
    Aug 31 Mon · 16:47
    Playground med
    Closed issue #4107 on the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    compile-extension artifacts can require symbols omitted from MAIN_MODULE=2 runtimes
    Aug 31 Mon · 16:47
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4108 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Fix external PHP extension ABI exports
    Aug 31 Mon · 09:55
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Aug 31 Mon · 09:38
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.52
    Aug 31 Mon · 02:59
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4291 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    CI: Slim down the Auto-label PR checkout to the minimum needed

    Developer

    2 plugins