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Dennis Snell

Software Design Engineer at Automattic

@dmsnell Tucson, AZ, USA joined Jan 2014

fluffyandflakey.blog github.com/dmsnell Slack: @dmsnell
    Maintains Charset Formatting HTML API
    Teams Core

    Bio

    As a Code Wrangler at Automattic, Inc., I spend my days designing software. As a nomad, I own very few things and enjoy living simply. I love cooking, engineering, photography, and my faithful God, Jesus Christ.

    Interests

    I’m passionate about programming theory, engineering design, and teaching software design. If you want to meet up at a WordCamp we could spend hours into the night discussing any problem no matter how big or small and get out our laptops to explore some ideas together.

    WordPress Origin Story

    At the time I found WordPress I had been building primitive CMS systems out of Google Docs, Smarty, and FCKEditor – what a different world! Once I realized that I could have a fully-fledged website building system for free and which got better as time passed I was hooked and abandoned all of my custom website coding.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '15

    Current Job

    Software Design Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    51contributions
    high42
    medium9
    score135
    Last 90 days
    151contributions
    high111
    medium40
    score373
    Last 12 months
    608contributions
    high422
    medium186
    score1452

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 19 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.7
    • 4.5
    • 4.3

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:20
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Docs: Revert "Indicate absint() returns non-negative-int...".
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:12
    Core high
    Committed [63158] to WordPress SVN:
    Docs: Revert "Indicate absint() returns non-negative-int...".
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:12
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65826 on Core Trac:
    Avoid fatal error condition in absint()
    Aug 07 Fri · 18:58
    Core med
    Closed pull request #12917 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Avoid fatal error condition in absint()
    Aug 07 Fri · 18:35
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12940 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Revert "Docs: Indicate `absint()` returns `non-negative-int` for static analysis.
    Aug 06 Thu · 19:59
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63115] on WordPress SVN:
    Security: Backport the WordPress 7.0.3 security fixes to the 4.7 branch.
    Aug 06 Thu · 19:57
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63114] on WordPress SVN:
    Security: Backport the WordPress 7.0.3 security fixes to the 4.8 branch.
    Aug 06 Thu · 19:56
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63113] on WordPress SVN:
    Security: Backport the WordPress 7.0.3 security fixes to the 4.9 branch.
    Aug 06 Thu · 19:54
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63112] on WordPress SVN:
    Security: Backport the WordPress 7.0.3 security fixes to the 5.0 branch.
    Aug 06 Thu · 19:53
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63111] on WordPress SVN:
    Security: Backport the WordPress 7.0.3 security fixes to the 5.1 branch.