Weston Ruter is a long-time WordPress user and contributor. He has been a core committer for 10 years and he co-led the WordPress 4.9 release.
He worked in the WordPress agency space at XWP over 2010-2018, and from then until recently he worked at Google where he was sponsored to work on the Core Performance Team. He has lived here in Portland, Oregon for the past 20 years.