As someone who makes a very good living from WordPress, I am always keen to give back to the WordPress community – and WCTO has been my \u2018home\u2019 WordCamp for the past seven years; volunteering\/speaking is a given for me! This year I will be speaking, leading a Contrib2Core session and supervising the Happiness Bar, as well as helping with speaker selection.<\/p>\n
I am a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. I live and work in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base.<\/p>\n
I 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, I created my first plugin, Author Avatars which now has 10,000+ active installs.<\/p>\n
From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it the platform of choice for my work.<\/p>\n
I specialize 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.<\/p>\n
I have made core commits in 3.9, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 and lead the virtual meetup, Contrib2Core<\/a>. I also continue to support my growing list of plugins<\/a> and the wider WordPress community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As someone who makes a very good living from WordPress, I am always keen to give back to the WordPress community – and WCTO has been my \u2018home\u2019 WordCamp for the past seven years; volunteering\/speaking is a given for me! This year I will be speaking, leading a Contrib2Core session and supervising the Happiness Bar, … <\/p>\n