Matthew Batchelder
AI Team Lead, Applied AI Engineer at Automattic
@borkweb Plymouth, NH USA joined Aug 2006
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AI Team Lead, Applied AI Engineer
Jan 2026 –
Present
Automattic · Full-time
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Last 90 days
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Last 12 months
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Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days
WordPress releases
Contributed to 1 release
- 4.6
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August 2026
Aug 16
Sun · 21:33
GitHub
med
Submitted pull request #55 to WordPress/wp-bench:
perf: run reset_per_test tests concurrently, one database per worker
perf: run reset_per_test tests concurrently, one database per worker
Aug 16
Sun · 19:45
GitHub
med
Submitted pull request #54 to WordPress/wp-bench:
fix(models)!: remove temperature and recover from rejected sampling params
fix(models)!: remove temperature and recover from rejected sampling params
Aug 16
Sun · 18:47
GitHub
med
Submitted pull request #53 to WordPress/wp-bench:
perf: restore a captured baseline per test instead of reinstalling WordPress
perf: restore a captured baseline per test instead of reinstalling WordPress
July 2025
Jul 17
Thu · 20:26
GitHub
high
Pull request #23 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
Update namespaces in architecture to domain-based
Update namespaces in architecture to domain-based
Jul 15
Tue · 15:43
GitHub
high
Jul 15
Tue · 01:57
GitHub
med
Submitted pull request #23 to WordPress/php-ai-client:
Update namespaces in architecture to domain-based
Update namespaces in architecture to domain-based
Jul 14
Mon · 22:30
GitHub
med
Jul 14
Mon · 17:44
GitHub
high
Pull request #12 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
Add fluent API code examples to architecture documentation
Add fluent API code examples to architecture documentation
Jul 14
Mon · 16:42
GitHub
high
Jul 14
Mon · 16:33
GitHub
med
Created issue #21 in the WordPress/php-ai-client repository:
Proposal: Use a Domain-Specific directory structure
Proposal: Use a Domain-Specific directory structure
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