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Matias Ventura

Lead Architect of Gutenberg at Automattic

@matveb Firenze joined Aug 2008

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    Bio

    Matías is an engineer, designer, and philosophy enthusiast from Montevideo. Member of the developer experience team at Automattic and the lead architect of the Gutenberg project in WordPress. He has been contributing to core since he co-designed the Twenty Eleven default theme. You can find him on Twitter as @matias_ventura.

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    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Lead Architect of Gutenberg
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    Specializations

    evenly split across 1 team · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

    Core 100% of attributed activity

    Contributions

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    May 2026
    May 20 Wed · 18:41
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”, on the site WordPress News:
    Explore AI abilities directly in your website, all managed from a central hub. Slide seamlessly…
    March 2026
    Mar 31 Tue · 22:50
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Extending the 7.0 Cycle, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    After discussions with project leadership, the decision has been made to delay the 7.0 release…
    February 2026
    Feb 19 Thu · 19:22
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Let's discuss today what we can do with the timeliness we have and if the…
    December 2025
    Dec 12 Fri · 17:10
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Planning for 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Done, thank you! :)
    Dec 11 Thu · 16:44
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Planning for 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    With 6.9 out in the world, our collective attention has already turned to 7.0. Core…
    June 2024
    Jun 26 Wed · 14:02
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Bits as dynamic tokens., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Hah, same thought!
    Jun 26 Wed · 14:01
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Bits as dynamic tokens., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I think it's less important for the nature of these inline tokens to disappear on…
    Jun 26 Wed · 13:57
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Bits as dynamic tokens., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    What about Shortblocks?
    December 2023
    Dec 13 Wed · 21:28
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Overflow Questions from State of the Word 2023 in Madrid, Spain, on the site WordPress.org Project:
    Indeed, I think it's largely an effort in combining both of these aspects—a beautiful modern…
    August 2023
    Aug 08 Tue · 20:57
    Meta high
    Received props from @francina in Slack:
    Props to @matveb for his first time as a release lead!

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