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Jake Spurlock

Senior Director, Customer Success at Automattic

@whyisjake San Francisco, CA joined Oct 2008

jakespurlock.com github.com/whyisjake
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    Bio

    Jake is a lead at Automattic on the WordPress VIP team. He was the release lead on the Core Security team and led the 5.5 release.

    Interests

    Photography, skiing, and WordPress…

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '16 Core Team '19 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Senior Director, Customer Success
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

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    Specializations

    evenly split across 2 teams · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

    Contributions

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    January 2026
    Jan 26 Mon · 07:25
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Fatal errors on post-new.php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Error Details=============An error of type E_ERROR was…
    November 2023
    Nov 11 Sat · 00:16
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post An update to the core commit message format, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Props: Jorbin
    October 2022
    Oct 17 Mon · 23:22
    Meta high
    Received props from @audrasjb in Slack:
    Props to @JeffPaul, @pbiron, @eboxnet, @whyisjake, @davidbaumwald, @peterwilsoncc for their help to test the release…
    September 2022
    Sep 29 Thu · 01:56
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0, on the site Making WordPress Secure:
    This has been proposed several time, but I would think that it makes sense with…
    March 2022
    Mar 09 Wed · 22:58
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Feature Project: Plugin Dependencies, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    This is great! Excited to see this project move along!
    September 2021
    Sep 09 Thu · 05:12
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to There was a problem searching for that location., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I figured out the issue, I had an API key, but I needed to specifically…
    Sep 08 Wed · 22:24
    Forums med
    Created a topic, There was a problem searching for that location., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    After adding the block, and adding a custom key for th…
    April 2021
    Apr 19 Mon · 21:18
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    +1
    March 2021
    Mar 30 Tue · 20:28
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    Wrote a comment on the post Journal Entry | WordPress Slack Workspace Unavailability, on the site Team Updates:
    Thanks for the update!
    Mar 17 Wed · 20:19
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    Wrote a comment on the post Trial run: Consistent minor release squad leaders for each major branch, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I’m happy to contribute too!

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