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Jason Adams

Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic

@jason_the_adams Colorado Springs, CO joined Sep 2008

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    Team Rep AI
    Teams Core AI

    Bio

    I’m an Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic with over 20+ years of dev experience. I have a fun and eclectic development background ranging from home automation systems, to scientific inventions, and many websites/plugins. Otherwise, I enjoy hiking with my awesome wife, rock climbing, and adventure!

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer WP-CLI Contributor '24
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Director of Engineering, AI
    Oct 2025 – Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    12contributions
    high7
    medium5
    score26
    Last 90 days
    27contributions
    high15
    medium12
    score57
    Last 12 months
    271contributions
    high131
    medium140
    score533

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 5.7
    • 5.5
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 16 Fri · 10:28
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64388] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities API: Add the `core/content-query` ability.
    Oct 14 Wed · 18:47
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64346] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities API: Add the `core/users-query` ability.
    Oct 13 Tue · 09:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64327] on WordPress SVN:
    AI: Introduce support for generating embeddings
    Oct 12 Mon · 11:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64311] on WordPress SVN:
    Core Abilities: Add the `core/settings-get` ability.
    Oct 07 Wed · 14:53
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #71 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    Add WP-CLI workflow execution suite
    Oct 07 Wed · 13:55
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #55 on WordPress/wp-bench:
    perf: run reset_per_test tests concurrently, one database per worker
    Oct 07 Wed · 00:36
    GitHub high
    Pull request #69 merged into WordPress/wp-bench:
    Isolate SQLite executions and enable concurrency
    Oct 07 Wed · 00:31
    GitHub high
    Pull request #68 merged into WordPress/wp-bench:
    Replace MySQL with SQLite for the benchmark runtime
    Oct 06 Tue · 23:20
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #69 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    Isolate SQLite executions and enable concurrency
    Oct 06 Tue · 22:31
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #68 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    Replace MySQL with SQLite for the benchmark runtime

    Contributor

    4 plugins

    Support Rep

    4 plugins

    Plugins

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