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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
    615contributions
    high231
    medium384
    score1077
    Last 90 days
    1007contributions
    high405
    medium602
    score1817
    Last 12 months
    1115contributions
    high447
    medium668
    score2009

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.5
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 12 Sat · 00:13
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #498 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    e2e's ~8 minute wall-clock is bounded by wp-env boot cost, not test…
    Sep 12 Sat · 00:13
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #500 on WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: cache wp-env's WordPress core checkout in the e2e job
    Sep 11 Fri · 22:23
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #503 to WordPress/presence-api:
    feat: expose the room's collaborator count as JS hooks
    Sep 11 Fri · 20:24
    GitHub med
    Created issue #502 in the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    The collaborator count only reaches code already listening to heartbeat-tick
    Sep 11 Fri · 20:14
    GitHub med
    Created issue #501 in the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Consider requesting identicon avatars on presence-api's own surfaces
    Sep 11 Fri · 17:03
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #500 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: cache wp-env's WordPress core checkout in the e2e job
    Sep 10 Thu · 17:17
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #130 into WordPress/sync-storage:
    ci: derive the Playground preview PR from the triggering run
    Sep 10 Thu · 17:11
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #130 to WordPress/sync-storage:
    ci: derive the Playground preview PR from the triggering run
    Sep 10 Thu · 14:54
    Plugins high
    Committed [3690092] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.5.0 from GitHub
    Sep 10 Thu · 14:53
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #478 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.5.0