Philip John has been working with WordPress since (almost) the beginning. He spent most of his career as a freelancer before joining the WordPress.com VIP team as an engineer, looking after some of the most high profile, interesting and challenging implementations of WordPress on the web.
Apart from WordPress, Phil’s other big passion is politics. He’s a contributor to an open source manifesto and co-founder of a political party in the UK, and sees these two passions as inextricably linked.
Twitter: @PhilipJohn
Philip’s Slides: http://philipjohn.blog/2017/12/08/wordcamp-us-2017-5-steps-to-better-wordpress-performance-for-non-developers/