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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
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    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, skiing, and WordPress…

    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
    0contributions
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    Last 90 days
    0contributions
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    Last 12 months
    43contributions
    high40
    medium3
    score123

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 15 releases
    • 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
    January 2026
    Jan 26 Mon · 07:25
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Fatal errors on post-new.php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Error Details=============An error of type E_ERROR was…
    December 2025
    Dec 16 Tue · 21:47
    Core med
    Created ticket #64423 on Core Trac:
    Introduce register_content_type() API for declarative content modeling
    Dec 11 Thu · 00:56
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #10617 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    [RFC] Posts: Introduce register_content_type() API for declarative content modeling
    October 2025
    Oct 31 Fri · 18:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61104] on WordPress SVN:
    Widgets: A11y: Prevent dropdowns from submitting on `esc` in Windows.
    Oct 19 Sun · 21:09
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60979] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Remove caching todo from `get_uploaded_header_images()`.
    September 2025
    Sep 30 Tue · 17:06
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60839] on WordPress SVN:
    Grouped backports for the 4.7 branch.
    Sep 30 Tue · 17:06
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60838] on WordPress SVN:
    Grouped backports for the 4.8 branch.
    Sep 30 Tue · 17:06
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60837] on WordPress SVN:
    Grouped backports for the 4.9 branch.
    Sep 30 Tue · 17:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60836] on WordPress SVN:
    Grouped backports for the 5.0 branch.
    Sep 30 Tue · 17:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60835] on WordPress SVN:
    Grouped backports for the 5.1 branch.

    Developer

    10 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

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