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Dennis Snell

Software Design Engineer at Automattic

@dmsnell Tucson, AZ, USA joined Jan 2014

fluffyandflakey.blog github.com/dmsnell
    Teams Core
    Sponsored Automattic 40 hours/week confirmed

    Bio

    As a Code Wrangler at Automattic, Inc., I spend my days designing software. As a nomad, I own very few things and enjoy living simply. I love cooking, engineering, photography, and my faithful God, Jesus Christ.

    Interests

    I’m passionate about programming theory, engineering design, and teaching software design. If you want to meet up at a WordCamp we could spend hours into the night discussing any problem no matter how big or small and get out our laptops to explore some ideas together.

    WordPress Origin Story

    At the time I found WordPress I had been building primitive CMS systems out of Google Docs, Smarty, and FCKEditor – what a different world! Once I realized that I could have a fully-fledged website building system for free and which got better as time passed I was hooked and abandoned all of my custom website coding.

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25
    CONTENT
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    Documentation Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '15

    Current Job

    Software Design Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
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    score1
    Last 90 days
    7contributions
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    score17
    Last 12 months
    33contributions
    high12
    medium21
    score57

    Specializations

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

    Core 100% of attributed activity

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 06 Wed · 19:10
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Automated 7.0 branch nightly generation broken., on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Thanks for fixing this. Was the problem that we were also building a zip of…
    April 2026
    Apr 20 Mon · 09:50
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2026
    Apr 14 Tue · 13:35
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordPress Developer Day Novi Sad 2026
    Apr 14 Tue · 13:32
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordPress Developer Day Novi Sad 2026
    March 2026
    Mar 27 Fri · 01:19
    Meta high
    Received props from @peterwilsoncc in Slack:
    Props @dmsnell for a heroic effort restoring histories to WordPress-Develop.
    Mar 26 Thu · 18:45
    Meta high
    Received props from @4thhubbard in Slack:
    Props to @ellatrix @desrosj @dmsnell @johnbillion @jonsurrell @audrasjb @mukesh27 for all your hard work prepping…
    Mar 02 Mon · 18:06
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Developer documentation restored., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I’m unable to speak to the comparison to services like Mintlify, but if any platform…
    February 2026
    Feb 26 Thu · 12:33
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Vienna 2026
    Feb 25 Wed · 19:53
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Developer documentation restored., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    If you hadn’t, then I would have the following June 🤷‍♂️ In any case, there…
    Feb 25 Wed · 15:49
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Developer documentation restored., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    +make.wordpress.org/docs/