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Joe Fusco

Software Engineer, Sr at WP Engine

@joefusco Rochester, New York joined Sep 2014

josephfus.co github.com/josephfusco Slack: @joefusco
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    Bio

    Building WordPress

    Interests

    Open Source Software, Civic Tech, Access to Justice, Amateur Arborist, Dad.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started using WordPress in 2013 with version 3.5. What began as building plugins and themes for agencies led to managing multisites in higher ed, then architecting headless WordPress applications for a door manufacturer in Florida. Now I’m back home in New York, contributing to Core, sponsored by WP Engine.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Meta Contributor '16 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Software Engineer, Sr
    Present
    WP Engine · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    65contributions
    high31
    medium34
    score127
    Last 90 days
    104contributions
    high46
    medium58
    score196
    Last 12 months
    128contributions
    high58
    medium70
    score244

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.5
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 02 Thu · 20:46
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #22 into WordPress/presence-api:
    Alert when an admin screen goes stale due to another user's save
    Jul 02 Thu · 17:06
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #62 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: address WordPress.org plugin review feedback
    Jul 02 Thu · 14:48
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #64 into WordPress/presence-api:
    build(deps-dev): update phpstan/phpstan requirement from 2.1.39 to 2.2.3
    Jul 02 Thu · 14:47
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #63 into WordPress/presence-api:
    build(deps): bump googleapis/release-please-action from 4 to 5
    June 2026
    Jun 29 Mon · 18:45
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #62 to WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: address WordPress.org plugin review feedback
    Jun 24 Wed · 16:52
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #61 into WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: surface build(deps) commits in the release-please changelog
    Jun 24 Wed · 16:52
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #61 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: surface build(deps) commits in the release-please changelog
    Jun 24 Wed · 16:21
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #56 into WordPress/presence-api:
    build(deps): bump actions/cache from 4 to 6
    Jun 24 Wed · 16:21
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #58 into WordPress/presence-api:
    build(deps-dev): bump @wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright from 1.48.1 to 1.49.0
    Jun 24 Wed · 16:20
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #57 into WordPress/presence-api:
    build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 7