Felix Arntz (@flixos90) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: November 28th, 2012
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: felix-arntz.me
GitHub: felixarntz
Job Title: Developer Relations Engineer
Employer: Google
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Bio

Developer Relations Engineer at Google. WordPress Core Committer. Previously Yoast. Runner, musician, movie geek. Aprendiendo español. Fueled by Mountain Dew.

Interests

Music Production. Movies. Brostep. WWE. Cocktails. Soccer. Running.

WordPress Origin Story

September 2012: Started working with WordPress
November 2012: Signed up for wordpress.org
March 2013: Published his first plugin on wordpress.org
October 2014: Reviewed a WordPress book
November 2014: Started working with WordPress multisite
June 2015: Attended his first WordCamp (WCEU in Sevilla)
June 2015: Did his first contribution to WordPress core
October 2015: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Cologne
February 2016: Started contributing to WordPress core regularly
May 2016: Became a component maintainer of Multisite
May 2016: Gave his first session at a WordCamp
September 2016: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Dusseldorf
October 2016: Co-organized WordCamp Cologne
November 2016: Became a WordPress core committer
June 2017: Attended his first WordPress community summit
August 2017: Became a component maintainer of Roles/Capabilities
February 2018: Gave a session at LoopConf
April 2018: Started working part-time at Yoast
April 2018: Became a component maintainer of REST API
November 2018: Started as DPE in the Web Content Ecosystems team at Google

Contributions Sponsored

Felix Arntz contributes 5 hours per week to the Core team.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
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Merged pull request #136 into WordPress/performance:
Enhance detection of enqueued frontend assets
1 day ago
Merged pull request #205 into WordPress/performance:
Mark Site Health Audit Enqueued Assets module as experimental for now.
1 day ago
Closed issue #42 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Configure GitHub action for automated plugin deployment to wordpress.org
3 days ago
Submitted pull request #205 to WordPress/performance:
Mark Site Health Audit Enqueued Assets module as experimental for now.
3 days ago
Merged pull request #202 into WordPress/performance:
Run all relevant GitHub workflows for release branches as well
3 days ago
Submitted pull request #202 to WordPress/performance:
Run all relevant GitHub workflows for release branches as well
3 days ago
Merged pull request #197 into WordPress/performance:
Add link to Settings screen to the plugin's entry in plugins list...
3 days ago
Merged pull request #191 into WordPress/performance:
Enable all non-experimental modules on plugin activation
3 days ago
Merged pull request #201 into WordPress/performance:
Add missing release instructions reference to docs TOC.
4 days ago
Submitted pull request #201 to WordPress/performance:
Add missing release instructions reference to docs TOC.
4 days ago
Merged pull request #200 into WordPress/performance:
Always recommend object cache on multisite
4 days ago
Merged pull request #198 into WordPress/performance:
Add plugin author URI pointing to relevant make.wordpress.org blog
5 days ago
Merged pull request #196 into WordPress/performance:
Include generated module-i18n.php file in repository
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #198 to WordPress/performance:
Add plugin author URI pointing to relevant make.wordpress.org blog
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #197 to WordPress/performance:
Add link to Settings screen to the plugin's entry in plugins list...
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #196 to WordPress/performance:
Include generated module-i18n.php file in repository
5 days ago
Merged pull request #190 into WordPress/performance:
Update module descriptions (specifically `webp-uploads`) based on latest updates
5 days ago
Closed issue #149 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Update `the_content` with the correct image format
5 days ago
Merged pull request #111 into WordPress/performance:
Add Site Health check module for persistent object cache
5 days ago
Closed issue #35 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Promote object caching in Site Health
5 days ago
Committed [2686171] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.69.0
5 days ago
Committed [2686170] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.69.0.
5 days ago
Created issue #193 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Provide admin pointer informing about the plugin's admin screen
5 days ago
Created issue #192 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Provide link to the plugin's admin screen in plugins list table
5 days ago
Merged pull request #189 into WordPress/performance:
Update @wordpress/env to latest version
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #190 to WordPress/performance:
Update module descriptions (specifically `webp-uploads`) based on latest updates
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #189 to WordPress/performance:
Update @wordpress/env to latest version
1 week ago
Closed issue #142 on the WordPress/performance repository:
When uploading, generate both WebP and jpeg format images by default
1 week ago
Merged pull request #188 into WordPress/performance:
Add retry mechanism for constrained environments.
1 week ago
Closed issue #142 on the WordPress/performance repository:
When uploading, generate both WebP and jpeg format images by default
1 week ago
Merged pull request #147 into WordPress/performance:
Add the `sources` property to each image size
1 week ago
Created issue #187 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Allow developers to tweak which image formats should be used
1 week ago
Merged pull request #178 into WordPress/performance:
NPM script to update `@since n.e.x.t` tags
2 weeks ago
Closed issue #90 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Automate @since tags generation using the `n.e.x.t` placeholders
2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52772] on Core SVN:
Cache API: Add `wp_cache_flush_runtime` function
2 weeks ago
Committed [2679149] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.68.0
3 weeks ago
Committed [2679148] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.68.0.
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52707] on Core SVN:
Cache: Use wp_cache_*_multiple() in core functions.
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52700] on Core SVN:
Cache: Add `wp_cache_*_multiple` functions.
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52669] on Core SVN:
Taxonomy: Remove cache expiry limitation in WP_Term_Query.
1 month ago
Committed [2671574] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.50.0
1 month ago
Committed [2671573] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.50.0.
1 month ago
Created issue #137 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Further evaluate default thresholds for enqueued assets
1 month ago
Merged pull request #108 into WordPress/performance:
Rename `object-caching` to `object-cache`
1 month ago
Closed issue #68 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Setup `.github` templates
1 month ago
Merged pull request #88 into WordPress/performance:
Issue templates for bug reports and feature requests
1 month ago
Closed issue #25 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Create Site Health Audit Enqueued Assets module
1 month ago
Created issue #135 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Enhance reliability of how Site Health enqueued assets module detects assets
1 month ago
Created issue #134 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Ensure Site Health enqueued assets module excludes admin-specific assets
1 month ago
Merged pull request #54 into WordPress/performance:
Add module to alert about excessive JS and CSS assets
1 month ago