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Jonathan Desrosiers

Principal Software Engineer at Bluehost

@desrosj New Bedford, Massachusetts joined Sep 2009

jonathandesrosiers.com github.com/desrosj Slack: @desrosj

Maintains Build/Test Tools Bundled Theme Emoji External Libraries General Media Notes Upgrade/Install

Teams Core Hosting

Languages art-xemoji

Bio

I’m passionate about WordPress, open source, and the open web!

Badges

CODE

9 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '19 Hosting Contributor '21 Hosting Team '24 Meta Contributor '18 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '24

COMMUNITY

3 badges

Meetup Organizer '24 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

2 badges

Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2024 – Present

Bluehost

Job History

Senior Software Engineer II

Apr 2022 – Aug 2024

Bluehost

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

95contributions

high74

medium21

score243

Last 90 days

463contributions

high353

medium110

score1169

Last 12 months

1684contributions

high1196

medium488

score4076

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 29 releases

Time commitment

40 hours per week

Bluehost 40 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 29 Wed · 19:55

Core high

Merged pull request #80817 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Ensure static checks can run for private mirrors

Jul 29 Wed · 19:51

Core med

Closed ticket #64969 on Core Trac:
Update bundled root certificates for 7.1

Jul 29 Wed · 19:47

Core high

Committed [62929] to WordPress SVN:
Security: Update `composer/ca-bundle` to version `1.5.13`.

Jul 29 Wed · 19:18

Core high

Pull request #80334 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve pre-flight npm access checks

Jul 29 Wed · 16:17

Core high

Merged pull request #80684 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 5 updates

Jul 29 Wed · 05:05

GitHub high

Merged pull request #368 into WordPress/HelpHub:
Update wp-coding-standards/wpcs to 3.4.1

Jul 29 Wed · 03:45

Core high

Merged pull request #80816 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Only use Flakiness.io in canonical Gutenberg repo

Jul 29 Wed · 03:32

Core med

Submitted pull request #80817 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Ensure static checks can run for private mirrors

Jul 29 Wed · 03:01

Core med

Submitted pull request #80816 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Only use Flakiness.io in canonical Gutenberg repo

Jul 17 Fri · 17:59

Core high

Committed [62791] to WordPress SVN:
Tag 6.8.6

Developer

10 plugins

Classic Editor

9+ million active installs
Disable "BIG Image" Threshold

10,000+ active installs
In Stock Layered Nav for WooCommerce

10+ active installs
Mesh - Page Builder

70+ active installs
Post Type Spotlight

20+ active installs
Responsive Page Tester

20+ active installs
Simple Subtitles

30+ active installs
Simple WP Retina

1,000+ active installs
Toggle wpautop

9,000+ active installs
WP Evernote Site Memory

30+ active installs

Contributor

1 plugin

Courier Notices

40+ active installs

Photos

154 contributions

View all 154 photos in the Photo Directory

Plugins

56 favorites

Translations

4 locales

art_xemoji 🌏🌍🌎 (Emoji) (Emoji) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 6 projects.

WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.0.x - Development