I have been a member of the WordPress core team for a number of years and a core committer since 2014. I'm hoping to use the money here to sponsor my time and enable me to contribute to WordPress. The more I raise, the more hours I will be able to devote each month.

Current Goals

• Improvements to the Build/Test tools including expanding the automated tests and improving grunt-patch-wordpress
• Helping with all minor and security releases
• Improve compatibility with PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3.

As an independent developer, my goals for WordPress are improving the developer experience and making sure WordPress runs fast and secure. I want to work for the people of WordPress.

About Me and WordPress

My first patch to WordPress was accepted on 26 February 2010. Since then I've made hundreds of contributions and in October 2014 was asked to help maintain WordPress core by becoming a WordPress Core Committer.

Some specifics that I am especially proud to have led or worked on in my time with WordPress:

• Build and test tools - For several years I worked on the tooling around how WordPress is built and tested. This includes driving the introduction of JavaScript tests in core.
• Grunt Patch WordPress - A tool making it easier to test and share patches to WordPress. WordPress has patches that come in many varieties (Multiple different repositories, multiple different version control systems) this tool takes the guesswork out of how to contribute.
• PHP7 compatibility and support - Ensured that WordPress core was working for PHP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 when those versions had their *.0 release
• Initial linting and standards for JavaScript - Collaborated and ensured that WordPress JavaScript both had a coding standard for JavaScript and the tooling to support enforcing it.
• Deputy Release Lead for 4.6 - This is the WordPress Release that brought the REST API and multiple user-facing features
• Removal of support for PHP 5.2
• Lead multiple security and minor releases

In addition to Wordpress Core, I have worked on some of the largest WordPress sites in publishing including The New Yorker, WIRED, Scary Mommy, Variety, and Rolling Stone. I've designed and run over 100 developer training sessions and workshops. I also was able to help launch the new theme for https://www.whitehouse.gov/ at noon eastern on January 20, 2021.