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Jon Surrell

Software Engineer at Automattic

@jonsurrell Spain joined Jan 2011

sirre.al github.com/sirreal Slack: @jonsurrell
    Maintains HTML API
    Teams Core

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '18 Core Team '24 Meta Contributor '24 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '24
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    24contributions
    high13
    medium11
    score50
    Last 90 days
    64contributions
    high33
    medium31
    score130
    Last 12 months
    485contributions
    high306
    medium179
    score1097

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.1
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.0

    Time commitment

    20 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 11 Thu · 17:04
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62487] on WordPress SVN:
    HTML API: Ensure that code points always encode to UTF-8
    Jun 11 Thu · 03:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62485] on WordPress SVN:
    Charset: Replace polyfill wp_has_noncharacters() with direct PCRE version.
    Jun 10 Wed · 23:37
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62484] on WordPress SVN:
    Charset: Fix broken test for utf8_decode() fallback.
    Jun 10 Wed · 10:56
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org Sandbox Request, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    To clarify, the request is for a sandbox for each of us. I can make…
    Jun 09 Tue · 13:55
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12140 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    HTML API: Ensure correct normalization of namespace-prefixed attribute names
    Jun 09 Tue · 12:13
    Core med
    Reopened ticket #65372 on Core Trac:
    HTML API: Fuzz-test and fix detections in 7.1
    Jun 01 Mon · 20:13
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12043 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    HTML API: General documentation fixes
    Jun 01 Mon · 20:09
    Core med
    Closed ticket #64717 on Core Trac:
    Docblock improvements for WP 7.1
    Jun 01 Mon · 16:09
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78861 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add code editors
    Jun 01 Mon · 14:07
    Core high
    Merged pull request #78686 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Docs: Fix stale, incorrect, or missing documentation

    Developer

    Plugins

    Español (Spanish (Spain)) Translation Contributor - #es_ES

    Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth