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Darin Kotter

Director of Engineering, Open Source Initiatives at Fueled

@dkotter joined Feb 2011

darinkotter.com github.com/dkotter Slack: @Darin Kotter
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    CODE
    4 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    PRACTICE
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    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Director of Engineering, Open Source Initiatives
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    Fueled · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    73contributions
    high49
    medium24
    score171
    Last 90 days
    242contributions
    high151
    medium91
    score544
    Last 12 months
    824contributions
    high465
    medium359
    score1754

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.4
    • 6.1
    • 5.6
    • 4.2
    • 4.0

    Time commitment

    6 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 12:43
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1076 into WordPress/ai:
    ci(e2e): shard Playwright tests and cache node_modules
    Sep 29 Tue · 16:16
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #1069 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Connector Approvals blocks core's key check, blaming the provider or Gutenberg ("not…
    Sep 29 Tue · 16:16
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1070 into WordPress/ai:
    Connector Approvals: stop blaming core's key check on the provider or Gutenberg
    Sep 29 Tue · 13:41
    GitHub high
    Pull request #855 merged into WordPress/ai:
    Markdown feeds experiment
    Sep 29 Tue · 13:20
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #1042 on WordPress/ai:
    Document the plugin's architecture and developer-facing API surface
    Sep 28 Mon · 21:22
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #970 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Meta Description: SEO plugin detection cache never expires and skips the "no…
    Sep 28 Mon · 21:22
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #973 into WordPress/ai:
    Fix: Meta Description: SEO plugin detection cache never expires and skips the…
    Sep 28 Mon · 14:20
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #1066 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Build/Test Tools: Upgrade Node.js to 24.x (24.18) and npm to 11.x
    Sep 28 Mon · 14:20
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1067 into WordPress/ai:
    Feat: Build/Test Tools: Upgrade Node.js to 24.x (24.18) and npm to 11.x
    Sep 28 Mon · 13:10
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #1052 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Editorial Notes: Only reviews template blocks instead of post content when "Show…

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