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Weston Ruter

Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine

@westonruter Portland, OR, USA joined May 2007

weston.ruter.net github.com/westonruter Slack: @westonruter
    Maintains Customize Script Loader
    Teams Core Core Performance

    Bio

    Working on making WordPress fast!

    WordPress Origin Story

    See https://weston.ruter.net/?p=34264

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '23 C Core Performance Team '23 Core Team '15 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '25 WordCamp Speaker '17
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Principal Software Engineer
    Aug 2025 – Present
    WP Engine · Full-time
    Working full time contributing to making WordPress.

    Job History

    Developer Relations Engineer
    Oct 2018 – Jun 2025
    Google
    Head of WordPress => CTO
    Apr 2013 – Sep 2018
    XWP
    Senior Web Developer
    May 2010 – Apr 2013
    X-Team
    Note: My role transitioned from X-Team to our newly-founded sister company, XWP.
    Sr. Web Application Developer
    Oct 2007 – May 2010
    Shepherd Interactive

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    187contributions
    high130
    medium57
    score447
    Last 90 days
    459contributions
    high308
    medium151
    score1075
    Last 12 months
    1885contributions
    high1255
    medium630
    score4395

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 34 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
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 19 Sun · 20:24
    Core med
    Closed pull request #12597 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Build/Test Tools: Update PHPStan from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 and phpstan-phpunit to 2.0.18
    Jul 19 Sun · 20:22
    Core high
    Committed [62798] to WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Update `phpstan/phpstan` to 2.2.5 and `phpstan/phpstan-phpunit` to 2.0.18.
    Jul 19 Sun · 19:41
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12597 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Build/Test Tools: Update PHPStan from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 and phpstan-phpunit to 2.0.18
    Jul 19 Sun · 16:54
    Core med
    Closed pull request #12588 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Improve typing and documentation for `wp_parse_list()`, `wp_parse_id_list()`, and `wp_parse_slug_list()`
    Jul 19 Sun · 16:53
    Core high
    Committed [62797] to WordPress SVN:
    Code Quality: Improve typing for `wp_parse_list()` et al.
    Jul 19 Sun · 02:14
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12588 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Improve typing and documentation for `wp_parse_list()`, `wp_parse_id_list()`, and `wp_parse_slug_list()`
    Jul 18 Sat · 17:04
    Core med
    Closed pull request #12546 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Add TypeScript checking and fix TS issues in `wp-tooltip.js`
    Jul 18 Sat · 17:03
    Core high
    Committed [62794] to WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Add TypeScript checking and fix TS issues in `wp-tooltip.js`.
    Jul 18 Sat · 16:06
    Core high
    Merged pull request #2556 into WordPress/performance:
    Add `prepare-release-notes` and `create-draft-release` scripts
    Jul 17 Fri · 16:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62776] on WordPress SVN:
    Grouped backports to the 6.8 branch.

    Developer

    33 plugins

    Contributor

    3 plugins

    Plugins

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