Wow! What a speaker list we’ve published so far. You’ve met 60 of our amazing speakers in Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four of our speaker post series. Now onto the rest!

Part Five

Curtiss Grymala

Curtiss Grymala is the Senior Web Technologist at the University of Mary Washington. While he’s at UMW, he spends the majority of his time managing the WordPress installations that power the UMW websites. When he’s not working on the UMW website or hanging out with his family, he also runs a small freelance agency called Ten-321 Enterprises, where he builds websites for non-profits and small businesses, and consults with clients in higher ed. He is also the founder of WPHighEd and is currently co-organizing WPCampus, a conference & community for people using WordPress in higher ed. He is a WordPress evangelist, an accessibility advocate and an open-source & open-standards fanatic.

Gary Pendergast

Gary is a WordPress, web and music geek who writes poetry with Automattic. He’s been know to commit random things to WordPress Core, just to see what would happen. He can be observed in his natural habitat at pento.net, or usually in Melbourne, Australia.

Andrea Forte

Andrea is a professor at Drexel University whose passions are to make and think about technologies that help people do things they couldn’t do before.

Allen Moore

Allen is a Front-End Engineer at 10up, a full service digital agency that makes web publishing and content management simple and fun. He has over 12 years of professional web development experience, and now focuses on crafting amazing User Experience’s for the amazing clients of 10up. He’s a musician, writer, and husband to his beautiful wife Karoline. He enjoys a good book, cup of coffee, pint of local beer, and cigars & scotch.

Adam Silverstein

Adam started programming in assembly code and learned Java when Netscape Navigator ruled the web – eventually embracing WordPress as his platform of choice. He is a contributing developer to WordPress and a Senior Web Engineer at 10up. Adam loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.

Mel Choyce

Mel Choyce is a Design Engineer at Automattic, WordPress core contributor, and co-organizer for the Boston WordPress community. She loves big typography, cold brew coffee, and teaching people about WordPress. You can find her on twitter @melchoyce.
 

Winstina Hughes

Winstina Hughes is a Master of City and Regional Planning candidate at Rutgers University. She received a B.A. in Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers. Her focus is transit-oriented development (TOD). She’s written about real estate development and transportation for hyper local news, and maintains her own WordPress.com blog on suburban planning and community engagement in the town she lives. Winstina bleeds scarlet, loves hip-hop, and adores WordPress software.
 

Beth Soderberg

Beth Soderberg a developer who is obsessive about clean code, solid design execution, and empowering the user. Her happy place is where code and design intersect and therefore also loves dabbling in user experience and design work. By day, Beth works as a web developer at CHIEF and by night is a co-representative of the WordPress Training Team, a co-organizer of the WordPress DC Meetup, and a Hack for Good organizer with the DCFemTech coalition in Washington, DC.

Andrew Nacin

Nacin is a lead developer of WordPress. He’s wrangled contributions, developed new features, and tried to fix more bugs than he created. He led a number of major releases, including 3.5’s overhaul of media management and 3.7’s automatic background updates. He currently works for the U.S. Digital Service, a team dedicated to tackling some of government’s most pressing problems.

Scott Taylor

Scott Taylor is a Senior 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. Scott lives in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, not Colonial) and really likes Mexican food. He is mainly a musician, but also finds time to code and has contributed in small and big ways to the last 10 releases of WordPress.

Mark Llobrera

Mark Llobrera (@dirtystylus) is the Technology Director for Bluecadet in Philadelphia, where he and his team build websites, native iOS/Android applications, and touchscreen applications for museums and non-profits. He specializes in CMSes built with WordPress and Drupal.

 Matt Cheney

Matt is a long time web developer is excited about decoupled CMS solutions using AngularJS and Backbone. He is also the co-founder of Pantheon which provides WordPress and Drupal hosting.

Linda Daniels

Linda Daniels is a Design Thinker, Experience Architect and Educator with over 20 years experience leading interactive and traditional teams for Fortune 500 companies such as Merck Pharmaceuticals, M&M Mars and now Comcast University. She specializes in the strategic direction and design of projects for internal and external organizations, creating inspirational user experiences to maximize results for corporate, consumer and educational initiatives. To find out more about Linda you can find her here: @ldaniels_design.

Taylor Lovett

Taylor Lovett is the Director of Engineering at 10up, one of the biggest WordPress centric agencies in the world. Having been involved with WordPress since 2007, he has contributed to WordPress core, authored popular plugins (downloaded hundreds of thousands of times), and spoken at many conferences across multiple continents. He is a lover of all things open-source. Other than developing web applications, Taylor is a lover of music. He enjoys listening to blues and jazz music as well as playing acoustic fingerstyle guitar.

Tony Perez

Tony is one of the Co-Founders, and CEO at Sucuri; a globally recognized website security firm specializing in cleaning and protecting websites. Tony has spent the better part of 5 years building an organization designed to provide value to website owners when they need it most. He has worked with 100’s of thousands of websites, helping them navigate their online security challenges, has spoken at dozens of events and conferences around the world, and is adamant in the power of education and awareness. He actively writes and shares his thoughts on both business and security on his personal website. He is a former US Marine, holds his undergraduate degree in Technology Management, and is an active Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner and competitor.

Joe Schaffner

As a Courseware Support Librarian, Joe Schaffner works with faculty, students, and staff who use Canvas, the University’s learning management system. Joe belongs to a team of librarians who plan and lead training sessions to help users see the system’s potential for attaining their teaching and learning goals. Additionally, Joe designs documentation for Canvas and other educational technology tools, and he also provides direct user support. Joe holds a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University.

 Dennis Snell

Dennis is a Code Wrangler at Automattic, Inc. and spends his days reticulating splines, working on backend APIs, refactoring code, and thinking. As an engineer, he tends to ramble about code performance, signal processing, and how to play well with others. As a digital nomad, he owns very few things and enjoys living simply with his most wonderful wife. He loves cooking, engineering, photography, and his Christian faith.

Josepha Haden

Josepha comes from a long line of writers and was raised to be a life-long learner. She has a passion for language and storycrafting, a skill she practices on starsandthemoon.com. She is experienced at using SEO, data analysis, and content marketing to bring success and visibility to clients all over the world. Since 2010 she’s been working in her hometown of Kansas City to increase digital literacy and get more women in technology. Josepha works at Automattic as a community organizer for the WordPress open source project .