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Jake is the President & Founder of 10up, a digital agency that finely crafts websites and tools for content creators, leveraging open platforms like WordPress. Whether you’re a political junky glued to FiveThirtyEight, a car enthusiast reading MotorTrend, a Windows user who keeps up with Microsoft’s newsroom, an Apple fan reading 9to5mac daily, or if you just use WordPress itself, you’ve experienced a sample of 10up’s work. Jake grew 10up from a 1 man show (himself!) to over 140 employees with dozens of brand name clients in 7 years. Jake started focusing on WordPress in 2006, releasing free plug-ins, building websites with it, and contributing core code. He has been a writer and expert reviewer for Smashing Magazine, taught WordPress engineering at Boston University, and has spoken at conferences, universities, and programs around the country. He helped organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010, founded Rhode Island’s WordPress meet up, and rebooted the Sacramento meet up as it continues to this day. He is a core contributor to WordPress, and maintains some highly rated plug-ins with over 500,000 active installations.

We’re thrilled to have Jake onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Jake below:

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Jamie Bergen is a scientist turned developer who enjoys building things with WordPress. She works for a small agency building WordPress websites and custom plugins for non-profit organizations. In a previous life, she worked as a research scientist on next-generation targeted drug therapies. Her current interests include WordPress theme and plugin development, web accessibility, and workflow best practices. In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with her husband, daughter, and dog. She also blogs occasionally.

We’re thrilled to have Jamie onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about her. Check out our mini interview with Jamie below:

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Ben Byrne is a co-founder of Cornershop Creative. He’s been designing on the web professionally for nearly 20 years, but he’s also been a developer for almost as long, building up extensive experience with languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and putting them to good use implementing his designs on several CMS platforms, including WordPress and Drupal. In addition to his own work, Ben oversees the design and development the rest of the Cornershop team does, ensuring it’s up to our high standards. He enjoys sharing his knowledge, and has presented to groups of varying sizes on topics like the difference between print and web design, web typography, various aspects of WordPress, and front-end performance. Ben lives in beautiful Santa Rosa, CA.

We’re thrilled to have Ben onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Ben below:

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Stacy Clements is the owner of Milepost 42, a technology partner for people who want to focus on their passion and not the “techie stuff” needed to support it. Prior to starting her business, she spent 23 years in the Air Force, the majority of that time in cyber operations. Dubbed “a fixer, a problem solver, and a pitbull”, she enjoys figuring out solutions, often using WordPress, to make people’s lives easier. In addition to building and caring for WordPress sites, she also enjoys educating people about basic cybersecurity practices to help keep the web safe.

We’re thrilled to have Stacy onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about her. Check out our mini interview with Stacy below:

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Nathan Ingram is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar. He is also the creator of >ADVANCE Coaching, working with WordPress business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses. Nathan has been a freelance web developer since 1995, and is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the lead organizer of WordCamp Birmingham.

We’re thrilled to have Nathan onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Nathan below:

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Lisa has over 16 years of product management experience. Throughout her career she has specialized in driving product strategy and go-to-market implementation of new products. At Qualpay, as Director of Product Management, she leads the team in developing and driving a vertical market product strategy, focusing on e-commerce. At her previous positions, she was responsible for managing P&L, personnel, standards committees and regulations while also creating value-added payment gateway products, innovating product suites and executing plans at Voltage Security, Visa and Cybersource. Lisa has always subscribed to a hands-on approach that supports businesses and resellers by helping them understand payments and payments security from the ground up and which pitfalls to avoid.

We’re thrilled to have Lisa onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about her. Check out our mini interview with Lisa below:

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Matt Cromwell is Head of Support and Community Outreach at GiveWP.com and WordImpress.com. He is the author of several popular free plugins and the Lead Admin of the Advanced WordPress Facebook group (which boasts over 30K+ members). He is also a popular blogger.

We’re thrilled to have Matt onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Matt below:

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Josh Smith is a Software Engineer at Dice.com; a company that uses WordPress to publish some of the best tech content on the web. At Dice, Josh works with content authors, marketers, and application developers to ensure Tech Professionals can access the highest quality content. He’s created dozens of themes and plugins to help promote content for Dice. Before he was an engineer, Josh served in the US Navy for twelve years as a Navy Diver. He’s removed our country’s ships’ propellers, inspected shipping lane buoys, and entered submarines through the business end of a torpedo tube. He’s learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable, which is a large part of writing software. Josh lives in Folsom, CA with his wife and two sons. He and his family love being outdoors. They went camping six times in 2017. He likes to be outside as much as he likes to be in front of his computers. He loves cycling for hours at a time and teaching his sons the value of running long distances.

We’re thrilled to have Josh onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Josh below:

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Chris Ford is a Project Manager with a background in graphic and user experience design. She’s currently leveraging the skills learned in those roles to manage projects at Reaktiv Studios, a WordPress.com VIP partner. In her spare time she antagonizes her dog with guitar practice, grows stuff in her garden, and makes stuff with her hands.

We’re thrilled to have Chris onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about her. Check out our mini interview with Chris below:

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Eric Debelak has been creating WordPress sites for over 10 years. He is currently a co-founder and senior developer at 11 Online, a full service digital agency in Albuquerque, NM. At 11 Online, Eric works with a variety of technology, including React.js, Python, Laravel, Android and of course WordPress. Eric also previously taught full-stack web development at Central New Mexico Community College’s STEMulus Center.

We’re thrilled to have Eric onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Eric below:

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