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David Levine

Engineering Lead | Product Lead | Senior Software Engineer at rtCamp

@justlevine Tel Aviv joined Jun 2011

github.com/sponsors/axewp github.com/justlevine
    Teams Core AI Core
    Sponsored Elementor 12 hours/week confirmed

    Bio

    Core AI Team | Engineering Lead @ rtCamp | Principal @ AxePress

    NGO consultant-turned-PHP/WordPress developer, specializing in enterprise, headless, and hype-free AI usage.

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    Big thank you to Elementor for sponsoring ~10 hours/week on the Core AI team 🙏

    WordPress Origin Story

    2006 – Created my first WordPress blog, since blogspot wouldn’t let me block my friends’ parents.
    2008 – First paid WordPress project, a classmate with a phone refurb hustle who paid with a refurbished iPhone.
    2011 – First time hiring and managing a WordPress project, for a university school I was launching.
    2016 – I realized I prefer solving problems to describing them and pivoted from management to engineering.
    2019 – My first code commit to WPGraphQL.
    2024 – Graduated the WordPress Contributor Mentorship cohort as “All-star Mentee” in the, and first code contribution to WordPress core.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Engineering Lead | Product Lead | Senior Software Engineer
    Present
    rtCamp

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
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    medium2
    score2
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
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    medium4
    score7
    Last 12 months
    34contributions
    high3
    medium31
    score40

    Specializations

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

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 19 Tue · 18:13
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Custom CSS for Individual Block Instances in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Okay, I think I understand - this one is for writing localized CSS rules that…
    May 19 Tue · 13:48
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Custom CSS for Individual Block Instances in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    How exactly is this supposed to interact with the existing (and defaults-true) `customClassName`? Currently in…
    April 2026
    Apr 29 Wed · 19:33
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Requests for Automation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    I'd suggest a more sustainable pattern than what Claude Code committed there, something closer to…
    Apr 09 Thu · 07:29
    Polyglots high
    Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    March 2026
    Mar 24 Tue · 15:17
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Introducing the Connectors API in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Per slack we're going to get this in the Miscellaneous dev notes.
    February 2026
    Feb 19 Thu · 18:04
    Meta high
    Received props from @lakshmananphp in Slack:
    Props to @justlevine for hosting this week's AI office hours and also thanks for the…
    Feb 19 Thu · 15:02
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    @jeffpaul @matveb hol up before we push the release, do y'all even share the same…
    Feb 19 Thu · 14:29
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.0 Product Review Meeting with @matt, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Have we gotten confirmation as to whether this is still scheduled for _after_ the beta1…
    Feb 12 Thu · 20:59
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post AI Guidelines for WordPress, on the site WordPress AI:
    @0mirka00 per the guidelines, Disclosure is to inform reviewers how it was used, not whether…
    Feb 12 Thu · 11:55
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    @josephdickson why are you presenting this comparatively? WordPress contributions aren't zero sum. The folks who…

    Contributor

    Completed Courses

    Total completed courses: 2