Jake Spurlock (@whyisjake) – WordPress user profile

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, WordPress, Baseball, Bikes

WordPress Origin Story

I got really into podcasting and needed to move away from iWeb to something a little more robust, and Joseph Scott recommended that I check out WordPress back in 2005. The rest is history!

Badges

CODE

6 badges

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

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

8contributions

high3

medium5

score14

Last 90 days

8contributions

high3

medium5

score14

Last 12 months

43contributions

high36

medium7

score115

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 15 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 24 Mon · 19:05

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Call for WordPress 7.1.x Release Managers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'd like to help with a security release during this cycle.

Aug 16 Sun · 22:40

Core high

Pushed 3 commits to WordPress/WordPress:
Filesystem API: Reject UNC and device paths in `validate_file()`.

Aug 16 Sun · 22:29

Core med

Closed ticket #51368 on Core Trac:
Remove windows path check from validate_file

Aug 16 Sun · 22:29

Core high

Committed [63312] to WordPress SVN:
Filesystem API: Reject UNC and device paths in `validate_file()`.

Aug 13 Thu · 20:20

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #935 to WordPress/ai:
Fix: make connector validity capability-aware instead of text-only

Aug 13 Thu · 01:36

GitHub med

Created issue #933 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Connector validity check assumes text generation, so speech-only and image-only connectors report…

Aug 12 Wed · 22:22

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.2 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
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Aug 12 Wed · 22:11

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.2 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
[code]/me dusts off the mic...[/code] I have some bandwidth for the next quarter and would…

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…

December 2025

Dec 16 Tue · 21:47

Core med

Created ticket #64423 on Core Trac:
Introduce register_content_type() API for declarative content modeling