Benjamin Turner
I’ve been a WordPress developer since 2012 and recently was hired as a Happiness Engineer at Flywheel. I wear many hats on projects and can often be found doing things ranging from front and back-end development to content migrations and DevOps things like setting up and troubleshooting infrastructure.
Sam Brodie
Sam is a big proponent of the productized mentality, having built a successful productized web design business (https://jurispage.com) that was acquired for 7 figures in 2016. He now teaches about the productized service business model (http://productized.com) and has a new business, Offsprout (https://offsprout.com), a website building platform built specifically for web design agencies who want to build and manage their client sites faster.
T-Rave
T-Rave’s passion is to share, inform, entertain, and to make smiles. He lives what he teaches.
T-Rave spends his days overseeing the hosting efforts for Flywheel managed WordPress hosting as the team lead of Hosting Operations. He dabbles in code when time allows and enjoys time offline with his wife and their doggo babies. He’s been known to enjoy a good IPA.
Zach Stepek
Zach is the CEO of Mindsize, an eCommerce -focused agency that builds and maintains stores for mid-market and larger eCommerce store owners. He’s been in the digital space for the last two decades as a designer, developer, and instructor. When he isn’t sitting in front of a screen, he’s behind a camera capturing images of musicians or pretending to be a musician himself.
Larissa Uredi
Larissa Uredi is the managing partner of No-Where Consultants, based in Kansas City. She has been working in the marketing and web development world for 10 years and loves staying on top of the latest trends and pondering the connection between brands, customers and technology. No-Where Consultants prides itself on leveraging technology to solve business problems for companies of all sizes.
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, with a current focus on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress at javascriptforwp.com. Zac has years of experience teaching at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites like Treehouse, Udemy and Frontend Masters. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers. You can also catch his free weekly Office Yoga sessions on OfficeYoga.tv.
Brock Ellis
Brock is a full stack web developer from Fremont, NE. He got his start coding in a small business and quickly learned to wear many different hats; development, QA, support, sales, etc. Brock loves writing software that solves problems. He’s very pragmatic when it comes to technical decisions, and pretty much all other decisions in general. His full time gig is serving as the GM of Sycamore Education in Fremont. He’s a member of the Fremont Creative Collective, a non-profit that aims to bring a center for creativity and entrepreneurship to downtown Fremont, and as the interim Lead Faculty of the Midland University Code Academy. Throughout his journey, Brock has used WordPress countless times, including a short stint as an entrepreneur starting his own web design firm, and loves its flexibility and well written documentation.
Topher DeRosia
Topher has been a web developer since before there were pictures on the web. He’s been a WordPress developer since 2010, and currently work as a WordPress Developer Advocate for BigCommerce. Topher is married, with two kids, two little dogs, and a little house in Grand Rapids MI.
Travis Pflanz
Travis Pflanz is a search engine optimization strategist and owner of WebWorks of KC (http://webworksofkc.com). Travis specializes in SEO and social media & content marketing for small businesses who target local customers and clients.
Travis is a co-organizer of WordPress KC – the Kansas City area WordPress enthusiasts Meetup group – and has been on the WordCamp Kansas City organizing team since 2014, serving as Lead Organizer in 2015 & 2016.
When not building WordPress websites and creating SEO strategies, Travis volunteers at Wayside Waifs Humane Society, serves on the Spay & Neuter KC Advisory Council and organizes the Kansas City Dog Club – a social club for dog lovers and their pooches.
Vasken Hauri
Vasken joined 10up in February of 2013 with over 10 years of experience working in technology in both the public and private sectors. Before becoming a WordPress developer in 2009, Vasken worked at Plymouth State University in several roles ranging from desktop support to systems administration, and occasionally, adjunct faculty member.
A strong believer in open source technologies, Vasken has spoken and hosted panels at numerous WordCamp, NERCOMP, and EDUCAUSE events, on subjects ranging from Green Computing to WordPress-based centralized authentication systems.
When he’s not testing cache performance or planning projects, Vasken enjoys spending time with his wife, hiking with his dogs in Yosemite National Park, and as a recent California transplant, is once again trying to find a good group of musicians to jam with in yet another new city.
Brad Haas
Brad is an expert in security incident response, forensics, and malware analysis. He is the technical lead for Wordfence’s Security Services Team, which performs incident response and security audit services for customers.
Brad earned bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Information Assurance from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and holds CISSP, GCFA, and GCIH certifications.
Dana Reeves
CEO and founder of Reeves Media Group, Dana is a marketing strategist with more than 25 years of marketing, content creation, and branding expertise, as well as deep knowledge of video/film production and WordPress. Dana is actively involved in the local community, serving on the board of directors of The Digg Site Productions, the Fremont Creative Collective, the Eastern Nebraska Film Office, and is a co-organizer of WP Omaha, WP Fremont, and WordCamp Omaha 2018. She is also a filmmaker and competitive pinball player—and combined those two passions in “Things That Go Bump In The Night: The Spooky Pinball Story”—a documentary she co-produced with her husband, Joel.
Josh Collinsworth
Josh Collinsworth is a Senior Happiness Engineer for Flywheel, an Omaha software company dedicated to helping creatives do their best work. He’s also a freelance developer and graphic designer, as well as an instructor on WordPress development for Interface School.
Cate DeRosia
A writer, editor, and nearly retired home school teacher, I have worked alongside my developer husband for over 20 years. I currently focus on communication and business operations for other developers.
Marc Gratch
Marc is a WordPress Consultant, a life long student, a husband and father. He’s been developing themes and plugins for WordPress since 2.8 (give or take a point release,) with a strong focus on simple, specific, niche functionality. Most everything he knows about code comes from the WordPress community which is why he tries to give back as much as I can. Marc loves the WordPress platform and the community!
Patrick Stevens
Here to serve is my motto. I love wisdom, sports, startups, coding cool stuff, creative marketing, mobile tech, music, and movies. I love building intuitive-beautiful websites and analyzing Google Analytics with the awesome SCORR Marketing team.
Stacy L. Carlson
Stacy L. Carlson is a serial entrepreneur and self-proclaimed systems and process nerd from Lincoln, Nebraska. She ran an eCommerce company for digital scrapbooking for 12 years and currently is working with Smile as well as the Engler Entrepreneur Program. She is a 2014 Alumni of the nMotion Accelerator and she was a co-facilitator of nMotion’s pre-incubator program, Prelaunch, which helps entrepreneurs validate their early business ideas through customer development and validated learning. She is also the co-facilitator of Ladies Launch Lincoln, a group that is supporting women of all ages and in all stages of entrepreneurship.
Judi Knight
Judi Knight is the founder and chief at New Tricks Web Design in Atlanta. Having found WordPress in 2005 she is not your typical web designer. Judi brings an unusual wealth of experience to her work, as a Ph.D. Psychologist, CEO of a software company, and real estate developer.
She’s led the Atlanta WordPress Users Group with over 3,100 members and was lead organizer of WCATL four years.
With her passion for WordPress and teaching, in addition to building websites for clients, Judi coaches web designers and developers to price, close, build, and deliver effective websites for happy clients and have successful careers.
Andrew Wikel
Really likes coffee. Has worked with WordPress for about 9 years, with roles ranging from dabbling for fun, to working full-time with WooCommerce now. Co-organizes the Rockford WordPress meetup, and has been involved with WordCamps since WordCamp Chicago 2012. Lead Organizer of WordCamp Rockford 2018
Mat Casner
Mat Casner loves being a small business owner and freelance entrepreneur. He is a multi-disciplined creative and communication professional with over 20 years experience in web development (including WordPress), graphic design, video production and marketing. He also coaches and mentors other creatives and freelancers. Mat is the president of Redlogic Communications, Inc., his freelance design agency. He serves dozens of advertising and marketing communications clients, ranging from large corporations, small businesses and non-profits organizations. He has worked with brands such as Sprint, Helzberg Diamonds, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Dimensional Innovations and Junior Achievement. He helps these businesses and organizations achieve their business goals by helping them design, develop and execute effective branding, web and social strategies, print collateral, advertising and marketing communications. Mat is based in Mound City, KS (pop. 650), an hour south of the Kansas City metro, where he is currently the mayor and an active community volunteer. He lives there with his wife, Regina and four teenage children.
Dave Navarro Jr.
Dave is a father, a grandfather, an unofficial WordPress evangelist, coder and ubergeek. He works for the largest library in the state of Kansas as a WordPress developer and won’t shut up about how he once wrote a WordPress plugin to run his toaster. When he’s not coding, while eating toast, you can find him outside with his camera pretending like he knows how to use it.