Marguerite Halley is a digital content strategist at Washington University in St. Louis and a usability/content strategy consultant for nonprofits. She has been working in digital content and design for universities and nonprofits throughout her career. She is passionate about creating digital experiences that users enjoy using. 

Becky is an independent front-end developer specializing in custom WordPress themes and project management. She is Chicago native and is very active in the WordPress community there, including helping with WordCamp Chicago and running one of its most active meetups. 

Matt Johnson is co-founder and CTO of Alley Interactive, a full-service digital agency in New York City that works with large media companies and non-profit organizations, where he leads company technology strategy and outreach to the open source community.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Taylor McCaslin is a Technical Product Manager living in Austin, Texas. He currently works at WP Engine, a managed hosting platform for websites and apps built with WordPress. Taylor speaks at WordCamps and WordPress events around the country. WordPress has been Taylor’s platform of choice for over 5 years. 

Deployments: from dreaded to delightful

Ryan has been designing and coding webpages for 14 years and has specialized in WordPress custom theme design and development, plugins and other customizations. His skills include HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL. He specializes in cross-disciplinary and cross-platform design centered around creating rich and engaging user experiences and has deep technical knowledge of SEO back-end assessment and implementation.

Productize your WordPress service

Jason provides design and marketing agencies as well as established small businesses monthly development resources for their WordPress websites.  Helping them achieve short and long term goals for their business through their websites by being their partner in code.

Be a Customer Service Superstar by Customizing WP-Admin

Sarah is a principal and technical lead at shines & jecker labs, a web development firm. Her 17 years in web development allow her to empathetically explain technical components to non-geeks so they understand what they’re making a decision about. Behind the scenes, she’s programming and managing the servers. With clients, she starts conversations with her good-humored, energetic approach and brings pragmatic new ideas to the table while keeping client budgets and goals in check. She adores working with WordPress.

Typography, Web Fonts & Your Site

Jen is a principal and the creative director of shines & jecker labs, a web development firm in Portland, Maine. She has over 12 years of experience in digital design, doing everything from creating original graphic design to writing CSS. Her strength is her ability to master the latest technologies quickly to provide clients with modern, current designs. Jen spends her free time reading, running, and serving on the board for her local library.

Intro to the Command Line for Designers

Lauren is a front end designer and developer for LBDesign, and a WordPress and JavaScript/jQuery with the Women’s Coding Collective.

WordPress, YOUR World, YOUR Data

Jack built his first commercial website in 1999 and has been hacking up WordPress since “Stan Getz” (2.2). Jack is a proud Core contributor. One claim to fame he has, Jack built a plugin live at a WordCamp …with Matt Mullenweg in the audience. When he’s not hanging out with a triceratops, Jack manages the web presence and a team of developers for ISDA, a financial organization in Midtown.

Content Architecture in WordPress AKA “You Can DO That?!”

Jamie is a Web Architect at OhmzTech, a Milwaukee-based custom application and website development firm. She has a background in Information Architecture, Web Development and UX design, but her true calling is having way too much fun doing data and content modeling for all the interesting projects that come her way. She still swears by HAND DRAWN ON PAPER brainstorms, architectures, and wireframes!

The Infuriating Four: The 4 Most-common WordPress Site Problems (and How to Avoid Them)

Rami Abraham is a developer lead at WebDevStudios / Maintainn. He’s been building with WordPress since version 2.8, with a heavy focus in plugin development, javascript, WebGL, and SCSS. Prior to that, he worked in a few lead roles at traditional web agencies, with a focus in php and javascript application development. He enjoys working with an unending variety of frameworks, SVG animation, and is part of the AffiliateWP.com support team after hours.

Data planning and architecture for a better client relationship and smoother development

Lindsay has been working as a web designer and developer professionally for the last 7 years and with WordPress professionally for the last 6 years. She currently run her own design and development studio and have worked with both national corporations and small  businesses on a wide variety of different types of projects.

WordPress for Government

 Cameron pioneered the blog format in the late 1990s. He’s built web sites for presidential candidates, the U.S. Army, the World Economic Forum and led the migration of 70+ web sites from a proprietary SaaS to WordPress for NJ’s largest public school district. He’s now migrating all 14,000+ U.S. public school districts to WordPress, saving millions of taxpayer dollars. He hails from Northern Michigan and currently lives outside of NYC with his family.

More Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist

Nicole is a software developer at Alley Interactive, a full-service digital agency focused on news media, where she develops WordPress sites for high profile clients such as Digiday and The New York Post. She also contributes to WordPress as part of the Documentation Team, and has spoken at Detroit area meetups and several WordCamps across the U.S. and Canada.

Fighting Censorship with WordPress

John is an Enterprise Support Specialist at WP Engine in Austin, Texas. He supports premium and enterprise customers’ wide array of issues and also offers global insight to those trying to reach difficult overseas web markets. John also spent the better part of four and a half years living Singapore, South Korea and China, where he worked as a technical editor, writer, teacher and web developer before coming back to the U.S.

WordPress Accessibility: The fundamentals of Web Accessibility

Jordan Quintal is a seasoned WordPress Developer, Contributor and Community Member with over 10 years of Web Development experience. He is currently the President of GeniusMedia, the Founder of AgentAccelerate, as well as a Freelancer through JordanQ.ca. Jordan is also a huge Web Accessibility advocate and very active in various #a11y Communities. He has presented and attended dozens of Meetups, Camps, and Conferences across Canada and the U.S.

Themes That Make You Go Hmm:  Theme Strategies for Designers

Elana is the Founder and Creative Director at Design Is Yummy, a graphic design studio based in Montreal, Quebec. She has been passionately communicating brand messaging across web and print mediums for over a decade. Elana brings insight into using WordPress to build profitable websites from the perspective of a designer, project manager, former freelancer and studio owner. She eats way too much chocolate and still believes high fives are cool. 

Immaculate Consternation

Alex  is the Agency Principle at DigiSavvy and is also a WordPress developer with 10+ years experience developing solutions for the web. He can’t resist a Hendricks or a good pair of running shoes.

Escape from New York

Tom work’s his days as a VIP Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP for Automattic. He is also a community moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange, project lead for the WordPress The Right Way ebook, open-source developer via GitHub, and occasional conference speaker. You can follow Tom on Twitter.

WP-CLI: Save Time by Managing WordPress from the Command Line

Shawn has been developing web applications for the past 20 years. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Actionable Books, overseeing a suite of web sites all built in WordPress. A lifelong computer geek, he has experience building applications for clients in government, non-profit and the private sector in both Canada and the United States. Outside of the office, Shawn can be found on the ski hills, at a campground, or occasionally packing a dance floor as a DJ.

Building and Leveraging Your Reputation

Aaron has over fifteen years of web development experience. He has been a regular contributor to WordPress for the last eight years, and even co-lead the WordPress 3.6 release. He’s committed to writing quality code that is both fast and scalable, and has a knack for translating ideas and goals into functional sites. Aaron has worked with clients ranging from small local businesses to Google, Yahoo, Disney, and Harvard. 

Multilingual Content and WordPress

Élise rediscovered the pleasure of writing thanks to WordPress and has been blogging (in French!) for more than 6 years. She is a founding partner at Desaulniers Simard, a boutique consulting firm based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She has trained hundreds of people to use WordPress and has developed dozens of sites. She has been a speaker at all WordCamp Montréal conferences since 2012 and she thinks multilingual sites are to blame for her grey hair.

Alexandre built his first of many websites in 1998. His browser of choice was Netscape 2.02 and he really liked BBEdit. Since 2009, Alexandre Simard has been making a living as an independent WordPress developer. He has spoken at (almost) all WordCamp Montréal editions. In 2014, he founded Desaulniers Simard with Élise Desaulniers.

Empowering Users: Modifying the Admin Experience

Beth is web developer and co-representative of the WordPress Training Team, an active member of the WordPress TV team, a co-organizer of the WordPress DC Meetup, and am involved with organizing the DCFemTech coalition in Washington, DC.

Get your WordPress Site in Shape – a Case Study

Hristo has been working for SiteGround as a WordPress expert for more than seven years now. He’s done it all: supported WordPress clients, built websites, designed WordPress themes.

Your Website Is Killing Your Business

Kathy is a marketing communications professional, specializing in digital marketing and business development.

Responsible Premium Theme Selection

Lara Schenck is an independent web consultant and teacher in New York City.

Learning through Stealing: How to become better at your craft Sara is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.

WordPress 4.4 and Beyond

Scott is a Sr. Software Engineer at The New York Times on the Interactive News Team. He is a Core Developer of WordPress and the Release Lead for WordPress 4.4.

Providing Inline Help for a Great User Experience.

Steve is the CEO of SlipFire, a New York City based WordPress development studio, and a partner in Piklist.

Creating March Madness-style Brackets in WordPress

Tom is a Principal Software Developer at Alley Interactive where he focuses on big media.