Devin Walker is the Co-Founder and Creative Technologist at Thought House, a San Diego based research, creative and advertising agency. He consistently strives to produce breakthrough creative, from concept to completion, that aims to exceed client expectations and delivers measurable results.

As a developer, Devin has built hundreds of WordPress websites from the ground up for businesses in a variety of industries including franchising, Fortune 500, and entertainment + hospitality. In addition to themes, he has extensive experience creating free and premium plugins including Google Maps Builder, Yelp Widget Pro and WooCommerce Quick Checkout. In total, his free plugins on WordPress.org have been downloaded nearly 100,000 times.

Outside of work, Devin enjoys traveling the world, going to concerts and playing a leisurely round of disc golf.

Derek Springer is a San Diego based Code Wrangler at Automattic, a beer blogger, and the developer of the BeerXML Shortcode plugin. In a previous life Derek spent nearly 10 years developing software in the Aerospace industry.

Chris Lema is the CTO and Chief Strategist at Crowd Favorite. He’s also a daily blogger, a public speaker, and product strategist. He helps companies leverage WordPress, and helps WordPress companies find leverage.

Michael Bastos is a self & university taught C++, Java, Php, Perl and Ruby Developer working as a Full Time Senior Software Engineer in San Diego with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and founder of the Advanced WordPress Group. He has also spoken publicly at numerous WordCamps and Tech Events.