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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
    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
    32contributions
    high25
    medium7
    score82
    Last 90 days
    116contributions
    high93
    medium23
    score302
    Last 12 months
    462contributions
    high348
    medium114
    score1158

    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 29 Tue · 09:28
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Sep 28 Mon · 09:52
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Sep 28 Mon · 09:37
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.56
    Sep 28 Mon · 04:31
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4365 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [CORS Proxy] Support HEAD and relay Content-Length for non-chunked responses
    Sep 27 Sun · 21:58
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4364 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [CORS Proxy] Don't relay server-control response headers
    Sep 27 Sun · 20:44
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4362 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [CORS Proxy] Support range requests from browsers
    Sep 27 Sun · 03:20
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4365 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [CORS Proxy] Support HEAD and relay Content-Length for non-chunked responses
    Sep 27 Sun · 02:35
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4364 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [CORS Proxy] Don't relay server-control response headers
    Sep 26 Sat · 21:13
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4362 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [CORS Proxy] Support range requests from browsers
    Sep 22 Tue · 14:31
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Recompile WordPress major and beta versions

    Developer

    2 plugins