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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
    25contributions
    high14
    medium11
    score53
    Last 90 days
    73contributions
    high36
    medium37
    score145
    Last 12 months
    215contributions
    high107
    medium108
    score429

    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
    September 2026
    Sep 08 Tue · 21:34
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #318 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump the npm-dev-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 3 updates
    Sep 08 Tue · 21:21
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #317 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    chore(ci): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 in the github-actions-updates group
    Sep 07 Mon · 13:27
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #306 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    dev!: Mark `WP\MCP\Cli` classes as final and cleanup internals
    Sep 06 Sun · 17:18
    GitHub med
    Created issue #101 in the WordPress/agent-skills repository:
    There is no actual eval runner
    Sep 06 Sun · 12:50
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Filtering registered abilities with wp_get_abilities() in WordPress 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I missed the inclusion of `result_callback` the first time around. @gziolo @milana_cap can you clarify…
    Sep 02 Wed · 01:59
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #311 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    fix(deps-dev): bump szepeviktor/phpstan-wordpress from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 in the composer-dev-minor-patch group
    Sep 01 Tue · 16:51
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #303 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    tests: run tests against PHP 8.5
    Sep 01 Tue · 16:26
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #288 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    feat: deprecate usage of MCP Adapter as bundled dependency
    Sep 01 Tue · 16:00
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #302 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    ci: bump dev-deps and `Tested up to` header
    August 2026
    Aug 27 Thu · 05:48
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #306 to WordPress/mcp-adapter:
    dev!: Mark `WP\MCP\Cli` classes as final and cleanup internals

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Completed courses

    2 completed

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