Derin Tolu works at the intersection of technology, design, and storytelling. He builds digital platforms, architects AI-powered tools, and shapes how organizations and individuals show up online.
For over a decade, he’s worked across that range: technologist, storyteller, systems-thinker and creative. He came up through Apple, WeWork, and Palo Alto Networks, moving from teaching people how systems work to building them outright, and taught himself to code along the way.
He serves as Director of Digital at Full Realty Services contributing to platform and infrastructure work across the company’s real estate brokerage and mortgage divisions. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, writing and working at the edge of AI, technology, and personal reputation.
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WordPress as an Operating System: Running Your Entire Company on WordPress
Track: Honing Your SkillsWordPress started as a blogging tool. It has grown into the operating system of the web. This talk takes that one step further: WordPress as the operating system of a company, the single surface where every business unit and every tool people depend on come together behind one login. It doesn’t do every job. It…