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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
    566contributions
    high225
    medium341
    score1016
    Last 90 days
    1393contributions
    high555
    medium838
    score2503
    Last 12 months
    1521contributions
    high613
    medium908
    score2747

    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 02 Fri · 02:22
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #709 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: list everyone in the debugger, you first, then by name
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:54
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #709 to WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: list everyone in the debugger, you first, then by name
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:48
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #708 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.14.0
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:47
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #707 into WordPress/presence-api:
    feat!: stop saving and serving presence colors
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:47
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #706 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Remove presence colors
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:25
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #707 to WordPress/presence-api:
    feat!: stop saving and serving presence colors
    Oct 02 Fri · 00:57
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #705 into WordPress/presence-api:
    docs: tighten the README's long paragraphs
    Oct 02 Fri · 00:54
    GitHub med
    Created issue #706 in the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Remove presence colors
    Oct 02 Fri · 00:06
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #705 to WordPress/presence-api:
    docs: tighten the README's long paragraphs
    Oct 02 Fri · 00:00
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #704 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore: put features in the playground grid's columns