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David Levine

Director of Growth Engineering at rtCamp

@justlevine Tel Aviv joined Jun 2011

github.com/sponsors/axewp github.com/justlevine Slack: @justlevine
    Maintains Abilities API
    Teams Core AI Core

    Bio

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

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

    —
    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

    Director of Growth Engineering
    Present
    rtCamp

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    32contributions
    high22
    medium10
    score76
    Last 90 days
    69contributions
    high44
    medium25
    score157
    Last 12 months
    233contributions
    high123
    medium110
    score479

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 10 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.2
    • 5.6
    • 5.5

    Time commitment

    12 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 02 Fri · 14:45
    Plugins high
    Committed [3724998] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.7.0 from GitHub
    Oct 02 Fri · 13:47
    GitHub high
    Pull request #354 merged into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    dev!: bump minimum node to v24.15
    Oct 02 Fri · 13:42
    GitHub high
    Pull request #344 merged into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    Revert "Fix wp-env builds for PHP 7.4 and 8.0 after Debian bullseye…
    Oct 02 Fri · 13:01
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #363 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump fast-uri from 3.1.6 to 3.1.8
    Oct 01 Thu · 16:06
    GitHub high
    Pull request #360 merged into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    docs: replace refs to AI Plugin with MCP Adapter
    Oct 01 Thu · 09:09
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #360 to WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    docs: replace refs to AI Plugin with MCP Adapter
    Oct 01 Thu · 09:04
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #358 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    Add SVG source for the wp.org banner
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 18:12
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #353 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    Add wp.org banner & icon assets
    Sep 30 Wed · 12:54
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13852 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    feat: Add support for Ability Deprecation
    Sep 30 Wed · 12:20
    GitHub med
    Created issue #1079 in the WordPress/ai repository:
    Rename Abilities prefix to either `core-experimental/*` or `ai/*` for future compatibility

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Completed courses

    2 completed

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