David Levine (@justlevine) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Core AI Team | Engineering Lead @ rtCamp | Principal @ AxePress

NGO consultant-turned-PHP/WordPress developer, specializing in enterprise, headless, and hype-free AI usage.

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Big thank you to Elementor for sponsoring ~10 hours/week on the Core AI team 🙏

WordPress Origin Story

2006 – Created my first WordPress blog, since blogspot wouldn’t let me block my friends’ parents.
2008 – First paid WordPress project, a classmate with a phone refurb hustle who paid with a refurbished iPhone.
2011 – First time hiring and managing a WordPress project, for a university school I was launching.
2016 – I realized I prefer solving problems to describing them and pivoted from management to engineering.
2019 – My first code commit to WPGraphQL.
2024 – Graduated the WordPress Contributor Mentorship cohort as “All-star Mentee” in the, and first code contribution to WordPress core.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '26

Current Job

Engineering Lead | Product Lead | Senior Software Engineer

Present

rtCamp

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

10contributions

high7

medium3

score24

Last 90 days

75contributions

high34

medium41

score143

Last 12 months

258contributions

high123

medium135

score504

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 9 releases

Time commitment

12 hours per week

Elementor 10 hrs/wk
On my own time 2 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 05 Wed · 07:16

Core high

Mentioned in [63019] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Raise the PHPStan rule level to 1.

Aug 05 Wed · 00:48

GitHub high

Merged pull request #273 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump the composer-dev-minor-patch group with 3 updates

July 2026

Jul 28 Tue · 21:50

GitHub high

Merged pull request #266 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
chore(ci): bump actions/checkout from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 in the github-actions-updates group

Jul 28 Tue · 10:29

GitHub med

Closed issue #900 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Why Red Hat OpenShift AI Is Becoming Essential for Enterprise AI

Jul 27 Mon · 22:33

GitHub med

Closed pull request #257 on WordPress/mcp-adapter:
Add MCP Toplist rank badge

Jul 21 Tue · 20:31

GitHub high

Merged pull request #249 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
chore(ci): bump the github-actions-updates group with 2 updates

Jul 21 Tue · 20:31

GitHub high

Merged pull request #250 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump the npm-dev-minor-patch group with 2 updates

Jul 21 Tue · 20:30

GitHub high

Merged pull request #247 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump wp-phpunit/wp-phpunit from 7.0.0 to 7.0.2 in the composer-dev-minor-patch group

Jul 21 Tue · 20:29

GitHub high

Merged pull request #248 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps): bump automattic/jetpack-autoloader from 5.0.20 to 5.0.21 in the composer-patch group

Jul 16 Thu · 17:30

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Call for Testing: Responsive Styling, on the site Make WordPress Test:
Thanks @isabel_brison for the reply and the link 🙇. Some of the below has been…