{"id":4620,"date":"2026-07-10T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=4620"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:00:25","slug":"aaron-jorbin","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/speaker\/aaron-jorbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Jorbin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aaron Jorbin is a polyhistoric man of the web who is an independently sponsored WordPress Core Committer. He has led engineering teams responsible for some of the largest and most prominent WordPress sites in the world including Rolling Stone, Variety, WIRED, The New Yorker, and Joe Biden\u2019s White House. Aaron can often be found leading WordPress maintenance releases. 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