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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
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    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
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    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

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

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    133contributions
    high94
    medium39
    score321
    Last 90 days
    286contributions
    high192
    medium94
    score670
    Last 12 months
    923contributions
    high537
    medium386
    score1997

    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
    October 2026
    Oct 16 Fri · 15:19
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #1185 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Key Encryption: undecryptable secrets cause a fatal error on every request, and…
    Oct 16 Fri · 15:19
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1186 into WordPress/ai:
    Fix: Key Encryption: undecryptable secrets cause a fatal error on every request,…
    Oct 16 Fri · 14:55
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #1133 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    New Experiment: Revision change summaries
    Oct 16 Fri · 14:55
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1159 into WordPress/ai:
    Revision Change Summary: Add experiment to summarize changes between revisions
    Oct 16 Fri · 14:07
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1205 into WordPress/ai:
    fix(deps): bump the npm-prod-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 3 updates
    Oct 16 Fri · 13:51
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1202 into WordPress/ai:
    fix(deps-dev): bump @wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright from 1.54.0 to 2.0.0
    Oct 16 Fri · 13:28
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1201 into WordPress/ai:
    fix(deps): bump @wordpress/block-library from 10.5.0 to 11.0.0
    Oct 16 Fri · 13:17
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1204 into WordPress/ai:
    Fix tests failing when core natively declares `show_in_abilities`
    Oct 16 Fri · 12:55
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1199 into WordPress/ai:
    fix(deps-dev): bump the npm-dev-minor-patch group with 4 updates
    Oct 16 Fri · 12:54
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1198 into WordPress/ai:
    chore(ci): bump the github-actions-updates group with 3 updates

    Developer

    1 plugin

    • AI

      60,000+ active installs

    Contributor

    8 plugins

    Support Rep

    18 plugins

    Plugins

    1 favorite