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Dennis Snell

Software Design Engineer at Automattic

@dmsnell Tucson, AZ, USA joined Jan 2014

fluffyandflakey.blog github.com/dmsnell Slack: @dmsnell
    Maintains Charset Formatting HTML API
    Teams Core

    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
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    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
    42contributions
    high30
    medium12
    score102
    Last 90 days
    133contributions
    high100
    medium33
    score333
    Last 12 months
    559contributions
    high373
    medium186
    score1305

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 19 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.7
    • 4.5
    • 4.3

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 11 Thu · 03:18
    Core med
    Closed pull request #12148 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Charset: Replace polyfill wp_has_noncharacters() with direct PCRE version.
    Jun 11 Thu · 03:18
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Charset: Replace polyfill wp_has_noncharacters() with direct PCRE version.
    Jun 11 Thu · 03:16
    Core high
    Committed [62485] to WordPress SVN:
    Charset: Replace polyfill wp_has_noncharacters() with direct PCRE version.
    Jun 10 Wed · 23:49
    Core med
    Closed pull request #12147 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Charset: Fix broken test for utf8_decode() fallback.
    Jun 10 Wed · 23:38
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Charset: Fix broken test for utf8_decode() fallback.
    Jun 10 Wed · 23:37
    Core high
    Committed [62484] to WordPress SVN:
    Charset: Fix broken test for utf8_decode() fallback.
    Jun 10 Wed · 23:32
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12148 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Charset: Replace polyfill wp_has_noncharacters() with direct PCRE version.
    Jun 10 Wed · 22:34
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12147 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Charset: Fix broken test for utf8_decode() fallback.
    Jun 10 Wed · 17:17
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Call for Testing: Unicode email addresses., on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Last month a call for input was sent concerning the introduction of Unicode email addresses…
    Jun 10 Wed · 16:38
    Core med
    Closed ticket #24487 on Core Trac:
    is_email() does not recognize IDN domains