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Jake Spurlock

Senior Director, Customer Success at Automattic

@whyisjake San Francisco, CA joined Oct 2008

jakespurlock.com github.com/whyisjake Slack: @whyisjake
    Maintains Security Upgrade/Install
    Teams Core Meta

    Bio

    Jake is a lead at Automattic on the WordPress VIP team. He was the release lead on the Core Security team and led the 5.5 release.

    Interests

    Photography, WordPress, Baseball, Bikes

    WordPress Origin Story

    I got really into podcasting and needed to move away from iWeb to something a little more robust, and Joseph Scott recommended that I check out WordPress back in 2005. The rest is history!

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Core Team '19 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Senior Director, Customer Success
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    67contributions
    high45
    medium22
    score157
    Last 90 days
    75contributions
    high48
    medium27
    score171
    Last 12 months
    87contributions
    high58
    medium29
    score203

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 16 releases
    • 7.1
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.4
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 4.8
    • 4.7

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 01 Thu · 19:33
    Core high
    Committed [64035] to WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Constrain the site icon's size.
    Oct 01 Thu · 19:32
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Toolbar: Constrain the site icon's size.
    Oct 01 Thu · 19:30
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65912 on Core Trac:
    wordpress 7.1 broke site icon
    Oct 01 Thu · 19:30
    Core high
    Committed [64034] to WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Constrain the site icon's size.
    Oct 01 Thu · 17:41
    GitHub high
    Pull request #45 merged into WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
    Release/1.0.5
    Oct 01 Thu · 01:29
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #45 to WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
    Release/1.0.5
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 22:49
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1083 to WordPress/ai:
    AI Workspace: stream provider replies once the PHP AI Client can
    Sep 30 Wed · 21:34
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #1014 on WordPress/ai:
    Let the AI Workspace admit tools by declaration
    Sep 30 Wed · 12:43
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1076 merged into WordPress/ai:
    ci(e2e): shard Playwright tests and cache node_modules
    Sep 29 Tue · 23:13
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1076 to WordPress/ai:
    ci(e2e): shard Playwright tests and cache node_modules

    Developer

    10 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

    4 favorites