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Brandon Payton

Software Engineer at Automattic

@bpayton Hamilton, IN joined May 2017

github.com/brandonpayton Slack: @Brandon Payton
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    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '17 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '18 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    26contributions
    high21
    medium5
    score68
    Last 90 days
    91contributions
    high75
    medium16
    score241
    Last 12 months
    465contributions
    high358
    medium107
    score1181

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.3
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 20 Tue · 15:58
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Recompile WordPress major and beta versions
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:17
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:01
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.60
    Oct 20 Tue · 09:25
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Oct 19 Mon · 09:53
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog
    Oct 19 Mon · 09:38
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    v3.1.59
    Oct 15 Thu · 09:06
    Playground high
    Merged pull request #4416 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    CORS proxy: pin validated destinations on custom ports
    Oct 13 Tue · 09:30
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Refresh SQLite integration plugin
    Oct 12 Mon · 15:14
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Recompile WordPress major and beta versions
    Oct 12 Mon · 10:07
    Playground high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    chore: update changelog

    Developer

    2 plugins