Jonathan Desrosiers (@desrosj) – WordPress user profile

Jonathan Desrosiers

Principal Software Engineer at Bluehost

@desrosj New Bedford, Massachusetts joined Sep 2009

jonathandesrosiers.com github.com/desrosj Slack: @desrosj

Maintains Build/Test Tools Bundled Theme Emoji External Libraries General Media Notes Upgrade/Install

Teams Core Hosting

Languages art-xemoji

Bio

I’m passionate about WordPress, open source, and the open web!

Badges

CODE

9 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '19 Hosting Contributor '21 Hosting Team '24 Meta Contributor '18 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '24

COMMUNITY

3 badges

Meetup Organizer '24 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

2 badges

Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2024 – Present

Bluehost

Job History

Senior Software Engineer II

Apr 2022 – Aug 2024

Bluehost

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

136contributions

high94

medium42

score324

Last 90 days

461contributions

high337

medium124

score1135

Last 12 months

1648contributions

high1160

medium488

score3968

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 29 releases

Time commitment

40 hours per week

Bluehost 40 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 13 Mon · 20:08

Core med

Submitted pull request #12507 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Dependency updates for 7.1

Jul 13 Mon · 15:03

Core high

Mentioned in [62713] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test: Add tests to enforce `-src` in version.

Jul 13 Mon · 14:47

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Build server not removing files from core.svn.wordpress.org when it should, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
There have been several recent cases where the build server has not removed files from…

Jul 13 Mon · 13:39

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Installing Node.js 24 on the build server, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks, @barry! Could you share which specific version of Node.js/npm is installed so those could…

Jul 13 Mon · 12:36

Core high

Merged pull request #79833 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Update `actionlint` to version `1.7.12`

Jul 10 Fri · 18:15

Core med

Submitted pull request #12481 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Apply updates for GitHub Actions

Jul 09 Thu · 21:16

Core high

Mentioned in [62683] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Update labels for media caption inputs.

Jul 09 Thu · 19:34

Core high

Mentioned in [62681] on WordPress SVN:
Widgets: Add "On This Day" dashboard widget.

Jul 09 Thu · 17:38

Meta high

Received props from @estelaris in Slack:
Props to @jorbin, @cbravobernal, @masteradhoc, @desrosj and @coffee2code for helping with WP 7.0.1 release party.

Jul 09 Thu · 15:40

Core high

Merged pull request #80047 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Bump docker/login-action from 4.2.0 to 4.4.0 in /.github/workflows in the github-actions group…