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Gopal Krishnan

Senior Software Developer at Automattic

@ingeniumed Sydney, Australia joined Dec 2022

gkrishnan.blog github.com/ingeniumed Slack: @ingeniumed
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    Bio

    I’m Gopal, and I work at Automattic as a Senior Software Developer.

    I’m a Canadian living in Australia who is super passionate about open source software.

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    Current Job

    Senior Software Developer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    7contributions
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    medium7
    score7
    Last 90 days
    8contributions
    high1
    medium7
    score10
    Last 12 months
    117contributions
    high47
    medium70
    score211

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.4
    • 6.2

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 30 Thu · 04:48
    Core med
    Closed issue #76599 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    RTC: The list of active collaborators is hidden when Top Toolbar view…
    Jul 29 Wed · 21:51
    Core med
    Closed pull request #77344 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block Hooks: Backport RTC-related bugfix
    Jul 29 Wed · 21:50
    Core med
    Closed issue #76176 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    RTC: [Interface] Block Hooks auto-inserted blocks duplicated on page refresh or collaborator…
    Jul 28 Tue · 00:44
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80769 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Disable custom autosave controller when RTC is disabled
    Jul 24 Fri · 04:54
    Core med
    Created issue #80662 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Preview can show a stale autosave after reverting a published post title
    Jul 23 Thu · 23:51
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80658 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Couple RTC and polling provider as an opt-in experiment
    Jul 17 Fri · 01:31
    Core med
    Created issue #80387 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    RTC: Mark default polling provider experimental
    May 2026
    May 19 Tue · 18:22
    Core high
    Pull request #76796 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Sync the content even if its a function
    April 2026
    Apr 09 Thu · 00:46
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Real-Time Collaboration in the Block Editor, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Apologies for the late response on this. Thanks for asking this question, as it's an…
    Apr 08 Wed · 12:42
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62220] on WordPress SVN:
    Block Hooks: Set ignored blocks meta in REST API response.