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Matthew Batchelder

AI Team Lead, Applied AI Engineer at Automattic

@borkweb Plymouth, NH USA joined Aug 2006

borkweb.com github.com/borkweb Slack: @Matt Batchelder
    Teams Core Documentation CLI

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    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Plugin Developer WP-CLI Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
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    B BuddyPress Contributor '19

    Current Job

    AI Team Lead, Applied AI Engineer
    Jan 2026 – Present
    Automattic · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    4contributions
    high1
    medium3
    score6
    Last 12 months
    4contributions
    high1
    medium3
    score6

    Team focus

    Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 4.6

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 05 Sat · 16:26
    GitHub high
    Pull request #53 merged into WordPress/wp-bench:
    perf: restore a captured baseline per test instead of reinstalling WordPress
    August 2026
    Aug 16 Sun · 21:33
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #55 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    perf: run reset_per_test tests concurrently, one database per worker
    Aug 16 Sun · 19:45
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #54 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    fix(models)!: remove temperature and recover from rejected sampling params
    Aug 16 Sun · 18:47
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #53 to WordPress/wp-bench:
    perf: restore a captured baseline per test instead of reinstalling WordPress
    July 2025
    Jul 17 Thu · 20:26
    GitHub high
    Pull request #23 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Update namespaces in architecture to domain-based
    Jul 15 Tue · 15:43
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #22 into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Add PHP lint workflow
    Jul 15 Tue · 01:57
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #23 to WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Update namespaces in architecture to domain-based
    Jul 14 Mon · 22:30
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #22 to WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Add PHP lint workflow
    Jul 14 Mon · 17:44
    GitHub high
    Pull request #12 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Add fluent API code examples to architecture documentation
    Jul 14 Mon · 16:42
    GitHub high
    Pull request #15 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Add .gitattributes for package distribution

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