WordPress Core Developer · Committer

Hi, I’m Carlos. I build and maintain WordPress.

I review patches, ship features, break things carefully, and write about the process. This site is my public workbench: commits, skills, tooling, and the occasional tangent about life outside the editor.

$ git log –author=”carlos” –oneline | head -3
a1b2c3d Fix race condition in wp_schedule_event()
e4f5g6h Improve REST API register_rest_field schema validation
i7j8k9l Deprecate filter previously undocumented since 4.6

What I work on

Skills & focus areas

01 — Core

WordPress core development

Committer work on WordPress/wordpress-develop: patches, Trac triage, cross-version fixes, release cycles.

02 — Gutenberg

Gutenberg contributions

Block editor patches, bug fixes, and feature work on WordPress/gutenberg.

03 — Blocks

Block editor & FSE

block.json, dynamic blocks, theme.json, templates, patterns, Gutenberg internals.

04 — Tooling

Dev tooling

wp-env, Studio, WP-CLI, Xdebug, Playwright, Composer, GitHub Actions, Node scripts.

05 — Process

Open source process

RFCs, component maintenance, release coordination, mentoring new contributors.

06 — Talks

Speaking & community

WordCamps, meetups, contributor days, internal deep dives on core subsystems.