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WordCamp San Diego 2016 Development Track Speakers<\/p><\/div>\n

Want to hear from some top notch development experts? This year’s development track lineup features some of the top local, national, and international names in the game:<\/p>\n

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Stephen Carnam<\/h2>\n

\"stephen-carnam\"Stephen Carnam is the founder of ServerPress, LLC, a technology firm that creates tools using open source technology for creative web designers and professional web developers. Stephen has 20+ years of software development and consulting experience. He is also co-admin for the Advanced WordPress Facebook group and a co-organizer for Advanced WordPress Meetup. Previously, Stephen held positions as a senior software developer and technology director specializing in interactive graphic engines for 3D game development, industrial applications, and defense simulations. When not writing code, Stephen enjoys graphic design, circuit board hacking, or sculpting new ideas for 3D printing in his garage shop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Konstatine Obenland<\/h2>\n

\"konstatine-obenland\"Konstantin is a WordPress aficionado, and Core Developer based in Ventura, CA. You might remember him from projects like WordPress 4.3 or the new WordPress.org Theme Directory. At Automattic he’s is part of a team that contributes to Core and WordPress.org full time. He enjoys bourbons, craft beers, and good food\u201a sometimes so much that he blogs about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zack Tollman<\/h2>\n

\"zack-tollman\"Zack Tollman is the application architect on the WIRED tech team. Before joining WIRED, Tollman worked as technical lead at the Theme Foundry and senior web engineer at 10up. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Lawrence University and PhD from Washington State University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Josh Cummings<\/h2>\n

\"josh-cummings\"Josh Cummings is an avid WordPress user and plugin and theme developer. He is currently a front-end developer at Grizzly where he and his team use the power and flexibility of WordPress every day. Along with his passion for translating beautiful design into code, he enjoys teaching, speaking and contributing to the WordPress community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alicia St Rose<\/h2>\n

\"alicia-st-rose\"Alicia St Rose began her adventure with WordPress when a UX friend offhandedly suggested using the CMS for a mutual friend’s website. That was nearly 8 years ago and the adventure has turned into a torrid love affair. Now she is a freelance developer, exclusively powered by WordPress, and has yet to find a limitation in this magical piece of software. Not only does she design and develop custom themes, but she also coaches folks on how to use WordPress like a Pro. She currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with her two rambunctious cats, Oscar and Milo. She divides her time between that seaside town and Black Rock City, Nevada. Oh, and her favorite color is red.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AJ Zane<\/h2>\n

\"aj-zane\"I can jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace. I focus on WP, Sass, Angular, & beer. Organize FrontEndAuthority.org, admin Advanced WordPress, and front end development for Veyo Logistics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Josh Pollock<\/h2>\n

\"josh-pollock\"Josh, is a WordPress plugin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He is the owner of CalderaWP, makers of Caldera Forms, and a co-founder of Ingot, the easiest A\/B testing framework for WordPress. In addition he is a contributor to WordPress core, the WordPress REST API, and plugins by Foo Plugins, Postmatic, Pods, Aesop Interactive, WordImpress, GravityView and more. One of Josh’s favorite things to do is to share what he has learned about WordPress plugin development, business and community. He writes regularly for Torque Magazine and has contributed to other top WordPress tutorial sites including, Smashing Magazine, Tuts+, and WPBeginner. He is also the author of the book The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Carl Alexander<\/h2>\n

\"carl-alexander\"Hi! I’m Carl. I have a website where I publish articles on a regular basis. It’s my way to help you with these hard-to-learn topics. That’s also why I’m excited to speak at WordCamp San Diego 2016. . It’s another way for me to help you. Besides that, I’ve been a WordPress Montreal organizer since 2010. I also help organize other WordPress events during the year. You can find me on Twitter and GitHub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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