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Greg Ichneumon Brown

Search Wrangler and team lead. at Automattic

@gibrown Boulder, CO, USA joined Jul 2011

Slack: @gibrown
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    Bio

    I work on search, stats, and scaling data products. Occasionally I try to do some analytics and data science.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Started working at Automattic in 2011. I hadn’t really touched WordPress before that.

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    CODE
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    Meta Contributor '17 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    Search Wrangler and team lead.
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    Contributions

    Type
    April 2026
    Apr 13 Mon · 04:06
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [14809] on Meta SVN:
    Plugin Directory: Search: Restore slug boosting in the search algorithm.
    August 2024
    Aug 09 Fri · 20:19
    Meta med
    Created ticket #7743 on Meta Trac:
    Plugin review filters by number of stars are incorrect.
    April 2024
    Apr 30 Tue · 14:51
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post The Plugin Directory gets a refresh, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    I believe this is the max number of plugins the query returns for a broad…
    December 2018
    Dec 14 Fri · 17:17
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Gutenberg Phase 2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Very excited about phase two. Maybe more phase 2+, but I think it is worth…
    June 2018
    Jun 07 Thu · 22:53
    Meta med
    Closed ticket #2626 on Meta Trac:
    Time and date missing from make P2 emails that use the [time] shortcode
    January 2018
    Jan 17 Wed · 23:32
    Meta med
    Created ticket #3389 on Meta Trac:
    Build Elasticsearch Index: Developer Hub
    Jan 17 Wed · 23:17
    Meta med
    Created ticket #3388 on Meta Trac:
    Build Elasticsearch Index: Support Forums
    Jan 17 Wed · 22:47
    Meta med
    Created ticket #3387 on Meta Trac:
    Build Elasticsearch Index: WordPress.tv
    Jan 02 Tue · 17:16
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Apache Solr/ElasticSearch on heavy load wp-jobmanager-sites (++5k records), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We use Elasticsearch on a lot of WordPress.com VIP sites when they are not performing…
    November 2017
    Nov 02 Thu · 13:45
    Meta med
    Reopened ticket #2754 on Meta Trac:
    Plugin directory search highlighting

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