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Mikael Korpela

Maker of Internet Things at Automattic

@simison Lithuania joined Jun 2006

mikaelkorpela.fi github.com/simison Slack: @Mikael Korpela

    Bio

    Developer & designer.

    Work at Automattic.com

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’m an old-timer since WP v1.x.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '18 Plugin Developer
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '15

    Current Job

    Maker of Internet Things
    Jan 2018 – Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    38contributions
    high12
    medium26
    score62
    Last 90 days
    159contributions
    high72
    medium87
    score303
    Last 12 months
    195contributions
    high78
    medium117
    score351

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.4
    • 5.8
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.0

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 22 Wed · 11:25
    Core high
    Pull request #80361 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    WP Build: avoid infinite worker build loop
    Jul 17 Fri · 22:13
    Core high
    Merged pull request #80426 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Storybook: fix Emotion jsxImportSource
    Jul 17 Fri · 18:54
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80426 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Storybook: fix Emotion jsxImportSource
    Jul 17 Fri · 09:03
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80401 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Theme: add LightningCSS WPDS token fallback plugin
    Jul 16 Thu · 18:45
    Core med
    Closed pull request #80129 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    UI: improve component code readability in Storybook
    Jul 16 Thu · 16:34
    Core high
    Pull request #80352 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    UI: improve component code readability in Storybook by using arrays for children
    Jul 16 Thu · 15:28
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80361 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    WP Build: avoid infinite worker build loop
    Jul 16 Thu · 13:29
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80359 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Boot: use scss modules
    Jul 16 Thu · 10:41
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80352 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    UI: improve component code readability in Storybook by using arrays for children
    Jul 15 Wed · 13:10
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80316 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Stylelint: no internal component classnames

    Developer

    3 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    3 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    fi Suomi (Finnish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

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