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Ben Moore
Ben Moore is the current lead organizer of the Austin WordPress Meetup, a Software Engineer at WP Engine, a core contributor, and the founder of SkyPress. He has talked at WordCamps all across the country and has a special interest in pushing WordPress past it’s limits. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and growing the local community.
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Breann McDede
Breann has loved and worked in the event world for over 6 years, with experience in hospitality, food and beverage, corporate, nonprofit, and currently tech, where she works as the Senior Event Specialist for Bluehost. She has been in the WordPress world for two years, and was instantly drawn to the community. She thrives in helping others advance their websites and businesses with events. In her free time, she loves to cook, bake, garden, play fetch with her cats, Teddy and Pepper.
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Cousett Hoover
Cousett is known as THE Techie Mamma. She is the mom of 2 boys and loves all things tech-related. Through her passionate tech instruction, Cousett teaches other mompreneurs how to maximize the technology so they can scale their business, live the lifestyle they want, and contribute something unique with fantastic technology. She also helps fellow mompreneurs, and other small businesses, get their website designed and developed and navigate other business tools like blogs, mailing lists, and CRMs.
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Devin Sears
After giving up on his aspirations to play in the NBA, Devin has found his place in the marketing world. As a Field Marketing Manager, he travels the country(whenever travel is allowed) in quest of the perfect milkshake while working with the WordPress community to help SMBs grow a successful online presence. In his free time he can be found in the middle of a marathon(Netflix, not running), cruising on his motorcycle, swinging from a hammock somewhere in nature or playing ping-pong.
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Hong Nga Nguyen
Hong Nga is an Austin native who first learned about WordPress when she joined WP Engine as an intern in 2015. Since then, she’s attended many WordCamps over the years and have learned a lot about the WordPress community. At WP Engine, she works as a Partner Manager leading many of WP Engine’s collaborative partnerships with WordPress plugins and services owners.
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Madison Sadler
As an Austin native, Madison fell in love with the WordPress community after joining WP Engine in 2018. The Genesis framework has been his primary area of focus as the StudioPress/Genesis Product SME. He is currently an L2 Technical Support Engineer with WP Engine and is both proud and grateful to be involved in his first WordCamp at WordCamp Austin 2020.
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Megan Bandstra
Megan Bandstra is an Associate Marketing Events Manager at Austin’s very own, WP Engine. She has been involved in the WordPress community for two years and values contributing time and effort to WordCamps.
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Nick Batik
Nick Batik is a WordPress Solutions Architect and Developer specializing in business and e-commerce websites, with a portfolio ranging from authors and entrepreneurs, to large multi-nationals, and government agencies, and is Co-Organizer of the Austin WordPress and WooCommerce Meetups.
He has presented both technical and business WordPress classes at numerous meetups, PodCamps and WordCamps and conferences in the US, UK, Europe, and Scandinavia. Nick specializes in the system design and implementation of complex, custom WordPress-based solutions that address client data management issues. As the back-end developer, he creates the custom database systems and functionality. Nick has dedicated his professional career to information architecture and solutions design.
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Ronnie Burt
Ronnie is a former educator, a math nerd, and a wannabe musician from Austin, Texas. For the past 10 years, he’s worked at Incsub, the company behind WPMU DEV, CampusPress, and Edublogs – where he leads the teams behind the hosting and education services. Find him blogging at ronnieburt.com.
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Ryan Hoover
Ryan Hoover is the Manager of Web Development at WP Engine, core contributor, former lead organizer of WordCamp Austin, and long-time co-organizer of the Austin WordPress meetup. He’s passionate about open source technologies, the WordPress community, and making WordPress development faster and safer for everyone.
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Sandi Batik
Sandi Batik is a WordPress and eCommerce consultant, business process analyst, unapologetic geek, unrepentant capitalist, and lucky enough to do what she loves every day. Sandi has been a member of the Austin WordPress meetup since 2008, a WPATX co-organizer since 2010, and a founding organizer and co-sponsor of the WooCommerce Austin Meetup. Sandi’s company LoneStar Software Services offers Business Solutions, including WooCommerce Stores, WooCommerce Site Administration Services, WordPress Membership Sites, Custom eCommerce Plugins, and Strategic Consultancy for eCommerce Projects.
