Paul Bearne is a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. He lives and works in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base.
He discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative tools internally for a multinational corporation, setting up a 200+ multi-blog site using WPMU on IIS7. As part of this project, he created his first plugin, Author Avatars, which now has 10,000+ active installs.
From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it the platform of choice for Paul’s work.
Paul specializes in creating highly performant scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code (plugins and themes) for large WordPress sites that are often multi-site, multi-language, VIP and/or e-commerce.
He has made core commits in 3.9, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 and leads the virtual bi-weekly meetup, Contrib2Core. He continues to support his growing list of plugins and the wider WordPress community.
Paul is a WordCamp Toronto 2016 Co-Organizer.