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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
    37contributions
    high26
    medium11
    score89
    Last 90 days
    108contributions
    high50
    medium58
    score208
    Last 12 months
    145contributions
    high68
    medium77
    score281

    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 09 Thu · 16:07
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #74 into WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: close referenced issues and post Playground link on release
    Jul 09 Thu · 15:10
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #74 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: close referenced issues and post Playground link on release
    Jul 09 Thu · 14:58
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #73 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.1.4
    Jul 09 Thu · 14:57
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #73 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.1.4
    Jul 09 Thu · 14:56
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #72 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore: exclude GitHub/CI-only files from release zip and add 0.1.3 changelog to…
    Jul 09 Thu · 14:43
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #72 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore: exclude GitHub/CI-only files from release zip and add 0.1.3 changelog to…
    Jul 09 Thu · 14:13
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #71 into WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: skip Playground preview for release-please branches
    Jul 09 Thu · 14:12
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #71 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: skip Playground preview for release-please branches
    Jul 09 Thu · 13:26
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #70 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.1.3
    Jul 09 Thu · 13:18
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #70 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.1.3