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Christopher Martinez

Chris has been working with the web since 1998 and has had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects with some amazing clients ranging from AutoZone to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has experience with a variety of industries including corporate, government, and most recently, higher education.

Chris heads up development and technology for MThree Group. His favorite quote is “The heart of design is communication: defining a problem and creating a solution that balances pure information with an aesthetic that gives the message voice.” – Jeffrey Veen 1998. Chris focuses on finding the best solution to client problems.

Daniel Abernathy

Daniel is a web developer at ReviewPush, an Austin-based startup. Although he now primarily works with Laravel, he performed client-focused WordPress theme and plugin development for the past 5 years.

Kori Ashton

Kori Ashton has been listed as one of seven women who run tech startups in San Antonio to watch. She started her first company at the age of 12, and has had an entrepreneur’s heart ever since. She built her first HTML website in 1998, and was instantly hooked on Web design.

In 2012, Kori co-founded WebTegrity – a WordPress-focused digital marketing agency in San Antonio, Texas. She also teaches HTML, CSS, WordPress, SEO and other topics to hundreds of students at schools, colleges, and community classes across the United States. She now has nearly 2 million views from an international audience on her WordPress Wednesday YouTube Channel.

Kori has spoken at WordCamp San Antonio, WordCamp Dallas / Ft Worth, TEDx San Antonio,  The Art Institutes, Women Veteran Entrepreneurs, UTSA Small Business events, and hundreds of WordPress Meetups and workshops.

Marty Spellerberg

Marty Spellerberg has 19 years experience in interactive design and development, including nine years working specifically with museums. He has presented his work at conferences including Museums and the Web, Museum Computer Network, WordCamp and SXSW Interactive. He is also the director of Spellerberg Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Lockhart, Texas. He is a graduate of OCAD University, Toronto.

Michael Bastos

Self & University taught Senior Software Engineer, Data Scientist & Former Marine and Chief Technology Officer recently relocated family from San Diego to Austin to take on a Head of Data Science role at a local startup.

Michael Schmid

Group CTO of the Amazee Group and CTO of amazee.io, doing a lot of things with Docker, Containers, sometimes Drupal and Drones when I have time. Grew up in 🇨🇦, now living in Austin 🇺🇸.

Nick Batik

Nick Batik co-founded Pleiades Publishing Services in 1992, has been building websites since 1994 and has been a WordPress consultant and developer since 2007.  A WordPress Evangelist, and a co-organizer of the Austin WordPress Meetup, he has presented technical WordPress classes at numerous meetups, PodCamps and WordCamps. Nick specializes the system design and implementation of custom, often complex WordPress-based solutions that address client data management issues. As the back-end developer, he creates the core computational logic of the website or information system to implement the customized functionality.

Pete Nelson

Pete is a full-time senior web engineer with 10up. He’s been working with WordPress the past 5+ years, has been doing web development professionally since the mid 90s, and is the creator of baconipsum.com

Scott Kingsley Clark

Scott is a Senior Product Developer at Modern Tribe, the lead developer of the Pods Framework, and one of the driving forces behind the Fields API proposal for WordPress core. He spends his days thinking about and solving complicated data architecture problems.

Toyin Akinmusuru

Toyin Akinmusuru is the Software Architect at Sherri Hill, and an acknowledge expert in the eCommerce solutions, Magento and WooCommerce.

Toyin has earned a reputation of creativity in designing solutions for technical problems. His regard for the user experience and customer needs have evolved over years of planning and developing interactions for eCommerce solutions.

An avid technologist, Toyin is the Organizer of the WooCommerce Meetup and Co-Organizer of the Austin WordPress Meetup.

Twitter: @mrosprey

Session Title: Rapid Application Development with Pods, the Rest API and VueJS

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