Jonathan Desrosiers (@desrosj) – WordPress user profile

Jonathan Desrosiers

Principal Software Engineer at Bluehost

@desrosj New Bedford, Massachusetts joined Sep 2009

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

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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

340contributions

high256

medium84

score852

Last 90 days

580contributions

high434

medium146

score1448

Last 12 months

1923contributions

high1408

medium515

score4739

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

August 2026

Aug 29 Sat · 02:34

Core med

Created ticket #65993 on Core Trac:
Running `grunt precommit:css` in old branches results in uncommitted ...

Aug 29 Sat · 02:04

Core high

Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Build/Test Tools: Revert r63310 and r63313.

Aug 29 Sat · 02:02

Core high

Committed [63396] to WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Revert r63310 and r63313.

Aug 28 Fri · 18:22

Core med

Submitted pull request #13310 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Use the Checks API to detect a timed out job

Aug 28 Fri · 02:14

Core med

Submitted pull request #82156 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Change stray `ubuntu-latest` to `ubuntu-24.04`.

Aug 28 Fri · 01:37

Core high

Merged pull request #81932 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates

Aug 28 Fri · 00:52

Core med

Closed pull request #79136 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Configure Flakiness.io reporting

Aug 21 Fri · 13:25

Core high

Mentioned in [63331] on WordPress SVN:
General: Make `get_tag_regex()` match tags non-greedily.

Aug 20 Thu · 00:27

Meta high

Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @Benjamin_Zekavica, @krupajnanda, @wildworks, @joedolson , @SergeyBiryukov, @desrosj, @JeffPaul,@milana_cap, @markoserb,@bjmcsherry, @obenland for facilitating the…

Aug 19 Wed · 23:13

Meta high

Made 3 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.