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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
    Teams Core

    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

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    13contributions
    high3
    medium10
    score19
    Last 90 days
    59contributions
    high25
    medium34
    score109
    Last 12 months
    63contributions
    high27
    medium36
    score117

    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
    May 2026
    May 27 Wed · 20:50
    Core med
    Reopened pull request #11609 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Collaboration: Add dedicated presence table for awareness storage
    May 27 Wed · 20:49
    Core med
    Closed pull request #11609 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Collaboration: Add dedicated presence table for awareness storage
    May 21 Thu · 15:57
    Core med
    Reopened pull request #11609 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Collaboration: Add dedicated presence table for awareness storage
    May 15 Fri · 12:46
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #15 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Stale presence when user leaves a site
    May 15 Fri · 12:46
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #19 into WordPress/presence-api:
    Remove presence on pagehide via fetch keepalive
    May 15 Fri · 12:04
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #16 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Page visibility should be factored into presence
    May 15 Fri · 12:04
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #20 into WordPress/presence-api:
    Skip presence ping for hidden tabs and refresh on visibility
    May 15 Fri · 11:54
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #18 into WordPress/presence-api:
    Trigger immediate heartbeat tick on page load
    May 15 Fri · 11:54
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #14 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Heartbeat delays reporting presence on pages other than post editing
    May 14 Thu · 17:39
    GitHub med
    Created issue #21 in the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Hidden post-edit tabs still refresh the post-lock presence entry