It’s time to welcome our seventh group of WordCamp Europe speakers and workshops! The topic of this group is Advanced Development, covering talks on APIs, react, security and much more. Take a look at the previous speaker announcements for #WCEU to see who else will be joining us.
Adam Silverstein
Adam started programming writing games in assembly code, and eventually a CMS in Java and many websites before discovering and embracing WordPress. He is an active core committer and is helping lead the effort to modernize WordPress core’s JavaScript. Adam is a Lead Web Engineer at 10up where he helps make the web better by finely crafting websites & tools for content creators. Adam loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.
[Talk] JavaScript APIs in WordPress
Sean Blakeley
Sean Blakeley discovered WordPress in early 2006 and has never looked back. He loved the flexibility it gave him and the control it gave his clients. From those early, simple websites he’s grown to become Tech Lead & Producer on large, enterprise projects for household names. Alongside working with WordPress, Sean spent a decade working in the film industry – working as a sculptor on some blockbuster films including Tomb Raider, Batman Begins, Harry Potter, Prometheus and more.
[Talk] When to Use the API
Libby Barker
Libby joined Human Made as a Project Manager in April 2016. She loves working with clients and development teams to build outstanding projects using WordPress. Before her introduction to the WordPress community, Libby worked primarily in film and television, most notably with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Food Network. In 2014 she and her husband moved from New York City to Vermont where she enjoys hiking, great local food and being involved in the local tech community.
Michael Selander
Mike got his current job after bumping into a bunch of Human Made team members at WordCamp London in 2016. He now works there as a senior full-stack developer. Most of his working hours are spent pulling apart project specs and turning problems into fast sites or web applications. Away from the computer, you can find him drooling over cars, planning his next nomadic year, or kayaking.
[Talk] Press, Publish, React
Felix Arntz
Felix is a WordPress freelancer based in Germany, and a backend developer with a major focus on multisite environments. He regularly creates plugins and is also involved in core development, where he has been a component maintainer for Multisite, Capabilities and Post Thumbnails for a while, and became a committer in late 2016. When not doing WordPress stuff, he spends his time producing music and playing the piano as well as soccer. He does all of that while drinking a lot of Mountain Dew.
[Talk] Capability-Driven Development
Alain Schlesser
Alain is a freelance software engineer, author and speaker living in Germany, who has recently settled on WordPress as his market of choice. Within the WordPress space, he is part of the WordPress Core Team (Bootstrap/Load Component Maintainer) and CLI Team (WP-CLI Co-maintainer). However, he is just as passionate about Open Source in general, contributing to a diverse set of projects and efforts, and constantly growing his expertise in software construction as a craft to master.
David Mosterd
David is a WordPress consultant from the Netherlands and lead-developer of the WordPress plugin Admin Columns. He is passionate about code that strikes a balance between being pragmatic and maintainable with a strong focus on object oriented coding. Loves to share his thoughts and knowledge on managing WordPress projects (and how to code them).
[Workshop] Dependency Injection And Design Patterns In Real Life
Robert Rowley
Robert is the security lead for Pagely and previously DreamHost, with over 10 years expereince in the WordPress hosting and security fields, he has been on the front lines during all of the major attacks against WordPress sites. As a hobby (aside from brewing beer) he does security research in many fields including WordPress and WordPress plugins.
[Workshop] Making Security Simple for Plugin Developers
Daniel Olson
Dan is the COO of DigitalCube, a WordPress product company with offices in the US and Japan. His work focuses on crafting technical solutions using design thinking, building WordPress SaaS products on AWS, and business development where those two ideas meet. Away from the keyboard he enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, tasting all the beers, traveling and helping with the family business, a pet boutique and bakery named, Amelie’s Bark Shop located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[Workshop] On-demand dev with Docker and WordPress
Due to the limited space available for each workshop, we recommend you get your ticket to WCEU now to not miss out on the workshop signup (opening soon).
Do these talks and workshops sound interesting?
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