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Joe Fusco

Software Engineer, Sr at WP Engine

@joefusco Rochester, New York joined Sep 2014

github.com/josephfusco Slack: @joefusco
    Teams Core

    Bio

    Building WordPress

    Interests

    Open Source Software, Civic Tech, Access to Justice, Amateur Arborist, Dad.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started using WordPress in 2013 with version 3.5. What began as building plugins and themes for agencies led to managing multisites in higher ed, then architecting headless WordPress applications for a door manufacturer in Florida. Now I’m back home in New York, contributing to Core, sponsored by WP Engine.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Meta Contributor '16 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Software Engineer, Sr
    Present
    WP Engine · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    607contributions
    high231
    medium376
    score1069
    Last 90 days
    1522contributions
    high593
    medium929
    score2708
    Last 12 months
    1667contributions
    high661
    medium1006
    score2989

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.5
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:18
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #785 to WordPress/presence-api:
    test: drop the test-only usePresenceUsers consumer
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:18
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #784 to WordPress/presence-api:
    ci: add a synced pattern Playground to the preview comment
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [3733490] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.16.1 from GitHub
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:15
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #783 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.16.1
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:08
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #783 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.16.1
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:08
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #782 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: show identicons in the WordPress.org live preview
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:04
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #782 to WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: show identicons in the WordPress.org live preview
    Oct 07 Wed · 23:50
    Plugins high
    Committed [3733478] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.16.0 from GitHub
    Oct 07 Wed · 23:47
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #759 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.16.0
    Oct 07 Wed · 23:20
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #161 to WordPress/gutenberg-sync-engines:
    Keep a block's saved HTML when an edit merges over it