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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 · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    222contributions
    high114
    medium108
    score450
    Last 90 days
    305contributions
    high152
    medium153
    score609
    Last 12 months
    355contributions
    high176
    medium179
    score707

    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
    August 2026
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:10
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #197 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.1.14
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:10
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #128 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Presence room authorization is not enforced per room
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:10
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #174 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: filter presence read paths by per-post capability
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:06
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #176 into WordPress/presence-api:
    refactor: replace hardcoded admin/online room string with helper
    Aug 07 Fri · 19:01
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #196 into WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: sync contributors from release props comment at release time
    Aug 07 Fri · 18:58
    Plugins high
    Committed [3638243] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.1.13 from GitHub
    Aug 07 Fri · 18:56
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #194 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.1.13
    Aug 07 Fri · 18:55
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #196 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: sync contributors from release props comment at release time
    Aug 07 Fri · 18:38
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #195 into WordPress/presence-api:
    docs: credit wp24horas in the readme contributors list
    Aug 07 Fri · 18:38
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #195 to WordPress/presence-api:
    docs: credit wp24horas in the readme contributors list