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Darin Kotter

Director of Engineering, Open Source Initiatives at Fueled

@dkotter joined Feb 2011

darinkotter.com github.com/dkotter Slack: @Darin Kotter
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    CODE
    4 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Director of Engineering, Open Source Initiatives
    Present
    Fueled · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    176contributions
    high112
    medium64
    score400
    Last 90 days
    349contributions
    high229
    medium120
    score807
    Last 12 months
    1036contributions
    high609
    medium427
    score2254

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.4
    • 6.1
    • 5.6
    • 4.2
    • 4.0

    Time commitment

    6 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2026
    Nov 10 Tue · 22:41
    GitHub high
    Pull request #1339 merged into WordPress/ai:
    Update default OpenAI image model
    Nov 10 Tue · 14:51
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1343 into WordPress/ai:
    Update our test to use `prepare_input` instead of `coerce_input`
    Nov 10 Tue · 14:36
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1343 to WordPress/ai:
    Update our test to use `prepare_input` instead of `coerce_input`
    Nov 10 Tue · 14:00
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1340 into WordPress/ai:
    Editorial Updates: Show the Apply Editorial Updates button when "Show template" is…
    Nov 09 Mon · 22:09
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #1339 to WordPress/ai:
    Update default OpenAI image model
    Nov 09 Mon · 19:03
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1238 into WordPress/ai:
    Markdown Feeds: Name other active Markdown plugins in the experiment description
    Nov 09 Mon · 19:03
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #1188 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Markdown Feeds: detect and warn when another plugin already serves Markdown to…
    Nov 09 Mon · 16:50
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1195 into WordPress/ai:
    Docs: add an AGENTS.md example and update docblock guidance
    Nov 09 Mon · 16:27
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #1290 into WordPress/ai:
    Fix typos and documentation issues in C2PA Monitor
    Nov 09 Mon · 15:42
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #1220 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Meta Description: generated value not saved when Rank Math is active

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