David Levine (@justlevine) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Core AI Team | Engineering Lead @ rtCamp | Principal @ AxePress

NGO consultant-turned-PHP/WordPress developer, specializing in enterprise, headless, and hype-free AI usage.

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Big thank you to Elementor for sponsoring ~10 hours/week on the Core AI team 🙏

WordPress Origin Story

2006 – Created my first WordPress blog, since blogspot wouldn’t let me block my friends’ parents.
2008 – First paid WordPress project, a classmate with a phone refurb hustle who paid with a refurbished iPhone.
2011 – First time hiring and managing a WordPress project, for a university school I was launching.
2016 – I realized I prefer solving problems to describing them and pivoted from management to engineering.
2019 – My first code commit to WPGraphQL.
2024 – Graduated the WordPress Contributor Mentorship cohort as “All-star Mentee” in the, and first code contribution to WordPress core.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '26 Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '26

Current Job

Engineering Lead | Product Lead | Senior Software Engineer

Present

rtCamp

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

19contributions

high10

medium9

score39

Last 90 days

64contributions

high32

medium32

score128

Last 12 months

211contributions

high107

medium104

score425

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 10 releases

Time commitment

12 hours per week

Elementor 10 hrs/wk
On my own time 2 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 15 Tue · 21:59

GitHub high

Merged pull request #330 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump phpstan/phpstan from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13 in the composer-dev-minor-patch group

Sep 08 Tue · 21:34

GitHub high

Merged pull request #318 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump the npm-dev-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 3 updates

Sep 08 Tue · 21:21

GitHub high

Merged pull request #317 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
chore(ci): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 in the github-actions-updates group

Sep 07 Mon · 13:27

GitHub high

Merged pull request #306 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
dev!: Mark `WP\MCP\Cli` classes as final and cleanup internals

Sep 06 Sun · 17:18

GitHub med

Created issue #101 in the WordPress/agent-skills repository:
There is no actual eval runner

Sep 06 Sun · 12:50

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Filtering registered abilities with wp_get_abilities() in WordPress 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I missed the inclusion of `result_callback` the first time around. @gziolo @milana_cap can you clarify…

Sep 02 Wed · 01:59

GitHub high

Merged pull request #311 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
fix(deps-dev): bump szepeviktor/phpstan-wordpress from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 in the composer-dev-minor-patch group

Sep 01 Tue · 16:51

GitHub high

Merged pull request #303 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
tests: run tests against PHP 8.5

Sep 01 Tue · 16:26

GitHub high

Merged pull request #288 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
feat: deprecate usage of MCP Adapter as bundled dependency

Sep 01 Tue · 16:00

GitHub high

Merged pull request #302 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
ci: bump dev-deps and `Tested up to` header