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David Levine

Engineering Lead | Product Lead | Senior Software Engineer 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

    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
    38contributions
    high15
    medium23
    score68
    Last 90 days
    85contributions
    high40
    medium45
    score165
    Last 12 months
    264contributions
    high122
    medium142
    score508

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 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
    July 2026
    Jul 08 Wed · 21:38
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Call for Testing: Responsive Styling, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    Love this! Responsive editing is desktop-first: a value you set on Desktop carries down to…
    Jul 07 Tue · 23:32
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #227 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    chore(ci): bump the github-actions-updates group with 3 updates
    Jul 07 Tue · 23:30
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #226 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump wp-phpunit/wp-phpunit from 6.9.4 to 7.0.0
    Jul 07 Tue · 23:29
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #237 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump the npm-dev-minor-patch group with 3 updates
    Jul 06 Mon · 18:47
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #247 on WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Bump minimum PHP requirement to 7.4.12 to avoid covariant return type…
    Jul 06 Mon · 18:29
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #257 on the WordPress/php-ai-client repository:
    Code Quality: Enforce FQCN in doc-blocks to fix downstream type hints
    Jul 06 Mon · 17:54
    GitHub high
    Pull request #831 merged into WordPress/ai:
    ci: pin NPM deps and ignore `@wordpress` from dependabot
    Jul 05 Sun · 15:42
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #832 to WordPress/ai:
    chore(deps): drop @wordpress dependencies to wp-7.0 versions
    Jul 05 Sun · 15:35
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #824 on WordPress/ai:
    fix(deps): bump @wordpress/dataviews from 14.3.0 to 15.0.0
    Jul 05 Sun · 15:35
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #825 on WordPress/ai:
    fix(deps): bump @wordpress/compose from 7.46.0 to 8.0.0

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Completed courses

    2 completed

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