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David Arenas

Software Engineer at Automattic

@darerodz joined Feb 2021

github.com/DAreRodz Slack: @darerodz
    Maintains Interactivity API
    Teams Core

    Bio

    Interactivity API component maintainer.

    Badges

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    Core Contributor '22

    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
    6contributions
    high2
    medium4
    score10
    Last 90 days
    12contributions
    high4
    medium8
    score20
    Last 12 months
    74contributions
    high34
    medium40
    score142

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 13 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 05 Mon · 13:26
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #14012 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Interactivity API: Add server-side processing for the data-wp-html directive
    Oct 05 Mon · 13:14
    Core med
    Created ticket #66246 on Core Trac:
    Interactivity API: Add server-side processing for the new data-wp-html ...
    Oct 05 Mon · 12:39
    Core med
    Closed issue #83076 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Interactivity API: Add a `data-wp-html` directive
    Oct 05 Mon · 12:39
    Core high
    Merged pull request #83092 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Interactivity API: Add a data-wp-html directive
    September 2026
    Sep 17 Thu · 12:45
    Core med
    Created issue #83078 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Interactivity API for WordPress 7.2
    Sep 17 Thu · 12:17
    Core med
    Created issue #83076 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Interactivity API: Add a `data-wp-html` directive
    August 2026
    Aug 14 Fri · 18:18
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #81651 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Interactivity Router: Preserve dynamically injected styles across navigations
    Aug 11 Tue · 18:23
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #81452 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Interactivity API: Preserve client-injected styles via data-wp-router-managed
    Aug 10 Mon · 20:12
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12963 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Interactivity API: Mark server-side-rendered style elements for the Interactivity Router
    July 2026
    Jul 30 Thu · 17:04
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62944] on WordPress SVN:
    Interactivity API: Fix a fatal error when binding a non-scalar value.