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Amy Kamala

@amykamala Santa Monica, CA joined Dec 2018

kittenkamala.com github.com/kittenkamala Slack: @amykamala
    Team Rep Core Hosting
    Teams Core Hosting

    Bio

    Core Team Rep 2026
    Hosting Team Rep 2026

    WordPress contributions sponsored by Elementor!

    Tech nerd + artist. Full stack web dev with team leadership and project management experience, with some UIUX and product development mixed in. MFA from UCLA.

    Past contributions:
    Release Coordinator WordPress 6.9 and 7.0
    Hosting Team Rep 2019-2023
    Tech Lead Cohort contributor WP 5.6
    WPLA MeetUps organizer (but not currently hosting events)
    Release Model Working Group 2019-2020
    WordCamp LA organizer 2020
    Spoken at and/or helped with contributor day tables at a few camps and meetups including: WCAsia, WCEU, WCUS, WC Las Vegas, WC/WP Santa Clarita, WC/WP LA
    Previous sponsors include DreamHost, InMotion Hosting, Kanopi Studios

    Interests

    art, crafts, animals, animation, gardening, baking, hiking, yoga, sci-fi, non-fiction reading, theology, technology

    WordPress Origin Story

    I found my way to WordPress.org through working technical support at a web host. <3

    I've worked at 3 different web hosts in a technical and/or team lead capacity and am well versed in hosting infra, standards and practices.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '20 Core Team '25 Hosting Contributor '19 Hosting Team '19
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '26
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '20 WordCamp Speaker '20

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    15contributions
    high12
    medium3
    score39
    Last 90 days
    93contributions
    high62
    medium31
    score217
    Last 12 months
    370contributions
    high232
    medium138
    score834

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.5
    • 5.6
    • 5.4

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 05 Wed · 20:36
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #331 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates
    Aug 05 Wed · 18:56
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #326 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Fixed lint errors
    Aug 05 Wed · 18:31
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #274 on the WordPress/phpunit-test-runner repository:
    cicd pipeline for testing code changes
    Aug 05 Wed · 18:31
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #325 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Setup ci/cd for coding standards
    Aug 05 Wed · 16:20
    Meta high
    Received props from @Benjamin_Zekavica in Slack:
    Props to @krupajnanda, @amykamala for their support and feedback during the 7.1 RC 1 release.
    Aug 04 Tue · 12:34
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda – August 4, 2026, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Let’s discuss branching and the RC Phase post this week https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0B4Q0RJVAT/p1785841888667359?thread_ts=1785836544.818869&channel=C0B4Q0RJVAT&message_ts=1785841888.667359
    Aug 04 Tue · 03:35
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – August 4, 2026, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The…
    July 2026
    Jul 29 Wed · 15:50
    Meta high
    Received props from @Benjamin_Zekavica in Slack:
    Props to @amykamala for her mentoring and support throughout the 7.1 Beta 4 release party!
    Jul 29 Wed · 00:41
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Hosting Team Meeting Agenda 2026-07-29, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Next Meeting The next meetings will be in the #hosting channel on and . Agenda…
    Jul 28 Tue · 01:42
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda – July 28, 2026, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The…