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Adrian Campos
Adrian Campos is a self-taught WordPress power-user since 2004 and has been a WordPress Evangelist since. On his way of being a WP Evangelist, he has converted many organizations and businesses, and his rallying cry is “Word Press is Ubiquitous!”. Currently, Adrian serves as a Data Scientist for the IBM Cloud Pack Team, and in his free time, he still consults many on the advantages of the WP Platform, and now and then, you can still hear his rallying cry.
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Allie Nimmons
Allie Nimmons is a self-taught WordPress power-user since 2014. She spent 5 years maintaining, troubleshooting, designing, building, and breaking WordPress sites for small business owners. Now, she is proud to be the first Community Manager at WP Buffs. She is mildly obsessed with lists and wants to make the internet approachable and accessible to all through WordPress.
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AmyJune Hineline
AmyJune Hineline is the Open Source Community Ambassador at Kanopi Studios. With a dual focus on both open-source community development and inclusivity, she is uniquely positioned to help individuals become more comfortable and confident as they contribute to their communities.
Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with the challenges faced by many end-users. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, an online meetup where they invite folks on every month to talk about all things accessibility – one of the core components of building an inclusive web.
Outside of her mission in the technology community space, she has a deep love for mycology, geocaching, and air-cooled Volkswagens.
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Cousett Hoover
I am Cousett @ Techie Mamma! I teach DIY mompreneurs on how to maximize technology through tech coaching. With my help, mompreneurs can maximize their business, live the lifestyle they want, and contribute something special with amazing technology.
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David Vogelpohl
David serves on the senior leadership team at WP Engine where he leads WordPress strategy and the Genesis business unit within WP Engine. David is a digital veteran with over 20 years of experience leading teams building, growing, and scaling digital businesses. David also owned and operated an advanced WordPress agency serving clients globally including marquee clients like WP Engine, Pioneer Electronics, and Esurance.
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David Zimmerman
David Zimmerman has been consulting companies on their SEO strategies and tactics for over 12 years. He’s helped everyone from publicly-traded companies to mom-and-pop businesses. 5 years ago, David started his own SEO company in Charlotte, NC- Reliable Acorn, LLC. Recently he launched CuriousAnts.com, to share what he’s learned about SEO best-practices with others.
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Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Core Team Lead at Yoast, where we believe SEO is for everyone. She is an accomplished educator, community leader, and public speaker.
Francesca co-led the release of WordPress.org 5.3 and 5.4. She is now serving as the Core Team global representative and mentoring other women to get involved in making WordPress.
One of the things she is most proud of is the blog she founded in 2013, C+B. With an editorial staff of more than eighty authors, C+B has helped thousands of Italian creative female entrepreneurs find their path throughout the years.
Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her around the world talking about WordPress, community, open-source, women in tech, and small businesses. Right now she does it via Zoom from her living room.
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Jason Cohen
Jason is the founder and CTO of WP Engine (http://wpengine.com), the largest WordPress Digital Experience Platform serving 150,000 customers with 1000 employees, both distributed and with major offices in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Australia. As a successful, repeat entrepreneur (Smart Bear, sold 2008; IT WatchDogs, sold 2004), Jason became a founding mentor and angel investor with Austin’s top incubator, Capital Factory, in 2009. He has written about startups for more than a decade at http://blog.asmartbear.com; Twitter is @asmartbear.
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Joe A Simpson Jr
Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and User-Experience Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. He is also a SiteGround Ambassador. Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted, focusing FIRST on doing the things he truly loved — WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and truly giving back.
He actively contributes to the WordPress Community, founding WordPress and Elementor Santa Clarita Valley Meetups, speaking or volunteering at WordCamps, is the Lead Organizer for WordCamp Santa Clarita Online, was a member of the Programming Team for WordCamp US, and is helping wrangle volunteers for the first-ever WordPress Accessibility Day October 2nd.
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Joost de Valk, Michiel Heijmans, Willemien Hallebeek and Annelieke van den Berg
The live site review panel is made of members of Yoast, including: Joost de Valk, Michiel Heijmans, Willemien Hallebeek and Annelieke van den Berg.
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Karen Kitchens
I’m a Front End Developer working remotely from Austin, TX. I work for an awesome web agency, Forum One, where we are dedicated to building web solutions for mission driven clients.
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Nicholas 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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Topher DeRosia
Topher DeRosia is Senior Developer Advocate at BigCommerce, where he works to enhance the communication between BigCommerce and developers. He brings more than 25 years of experience as a web developer, over a decade of which has been spent building out WordPress sites. In addition, Topher has extensive knowledge of WooCommerce development, helped make Easy Digital Downloads and curates HeroPress.com. Fun fact: Topher is responsible for making the official International Space Station Windows95 desktop theme.
He currently lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife Cate and two daughters, Ema and Sophia. You can find Topher on Twitter (@topher1kenobe) talking about ecommerce, web development, general technology, and culture. He’s also a regular on the Make WordPress and Post Status Slack channels.
