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Nate Finch

Application Architect at University of Wisconsin–Madison

@n8finch Madison, WI joined Nov 2012

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    Bio

    I’ve been building custom websites and web apps for people, non-profits, embassies, and businesses since 2012. The projects are typically on WordPress, so they’re easy to manage and update for clients. I really love doing this. It’s the perfect mix of problem solving, helping people, and life-long learning. And there’s plenty to learn in web development!

    By day, I’m an Application Architect at the University of Wisconsin—Madison where I build and maintain custom websites and applications for the university.

    In the past, I’ve mostly freelanced, working through platforms like toptal and Codeable, as well as a brief stint as a web engineer with 10up. Then I spent a couple years as VP of Development at The Digital Ring, a digital marketing agency based in Madison, WI. After that, a couple years as a Senior WordPress Engineer at Strattic.com building serverless integrations for WordPress (fun stuff!), and then we got acquired and I got moved to Elementor.com.

    An avid learner, I have made a habit of collecting masters degrees (MBA, MA, MDiv). I like to say that I would be a professional student if it would pay the bills. I’ve also been to six continents (not Antartica… yet!), lived on four, speak Spanish, and I am varying degrees of conversational in a couple other languages.

    Interests

    Being with people (and being alone, I’m an introvert), cooking, coffee, scotch, barrel-aged beer, smoked meats, travel, learning (especially languages!), movies, and a few other things:-).

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started making affiliate sites on WordPress. I actually enjoyed setting up the sites way more than I enjoyed running marketing campaigns. Once I found out I could customize the site with code (fun!) and the community was amazingly helpful (super fun!), I was sold…

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Pattern Author '24 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '22 WordCamp Speaker '22
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Test Contributor '24
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '22

    Current Job

    Application Architect
    Present
    University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    5contributions
    high3
    medium2
    score11
    Last 90 days
    16contributions
    high6
    medium10
    score28
    Last 12 months
    52contributions
    high22
    medium30
    score96

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.1
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.1

    Time commitment

    4 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 07 Wed · 02:06
    Core high
    Pull request #84127 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Storybook: Read icon keywords from the manifest
    Oct 06 Tue · 16:02
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #84127 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Storybook: Read icon keywords from the manifest
    September 2026
    Sep 29 Tue · 11:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63999] on WordPress SVN:
    Icons: Support keyword-based search in the icons registry.
    Sep 29 Tue · 11:31
    Core high
    Pull request #82367 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Support keyword-based search in the icons registry
    Sep 25 Fri · 13:26
    Core med
    Created issue #83534 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Move the Storybook icon keyword list into the icons manifest
    Sep 22 Tue · 23:39
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13672 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Icons: Support keyword-based search in the icons registry
    Sep 22 Tue · 14:54
    Core med
    Created ticket #66158 on Core Trac:
    Editor: Sync Gutenberg PR 82367 - Update to include keywords in icon search
    Sep 10 Thu · 17:53
    Meta high
    Received props from @James Roberts in Slack:
    Props to @n8finch for facilitating the New Contributor meeting on short notice :hero:
    Sep 10 Thu · 15:01
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0: A smoother workflow for your first Core contribution, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    This is really cool, ¡gracias JuanMa!
    Sep 09 Wed · 20:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WordPress 7.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for the logs. It could be that this is a false positive in your…

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Completed courses

    16 completed

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    Plugins

    3 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Prismatic

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