Meet the Speakers for the Air Force Track

Make sure to sit in on the Air Force track and master your web development skills with these awesome speakers.

Tessa Kriesel

Developer Advocate at Pantheon, Tessa has been a web developer for over 10 years. She enjoys front-end development but also loves to build sites from start to finish.

She enjoys teaching others to code, mentoring junior developers and speaking at conferences and youth events. She is an instructor and retired Chapter Leader for Girl Develop It Minneapolis, WordCamp Minneapolis Organizer and founder of Outspoken Women. Tessa is a northern Minnesota native, but now lives in the Twin Cities. She loves dogs and enjoys helping local organizations rescue dogs in her free time.

Mika Epstein

Mika Ariela “Ipstenu” Epstein works for DreamHost as a full stack WordPress developer on DreamPress, Mika helps make the internet better for everyone. She is passionate about code, open source technology, open data, and mindful development practices. The cofounder of LezWatchTV, the greatest database of queer characters and shows, she develops software and trawls queer representation on television to make the data visible.

Adam Rasheed

Adam Rasheed is a UI designer and front-end developer who runs a design consultancy at Creatix Online Marketing. For 5+ years, he’s directly helped small businesses reach their audiences online.

Carl Alexander

I’m a PHP developer from Montréal, Canada. I live and breath advanced programming topics (and memes). I share a lot of my passion for those topics on my 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. It’s another way for me to help you.

Besides that, I’ve been a WordPress Montréal organizer since 2010. I also help organize other WordPress events during the year. You can find me on Twitter and GitHub.

Chris David Miles

Chris is a Product Manager for Bluehost in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has done freelance web design and front-end development for over a decade. He discovered WordPress in 2011 and has used it to build sites for clients and non-profits ever since.

Johm Adams

I’m a friendly, goofy guy who is a bit a Frankenstein engineer. I started in home automation, then worked in software, from there server and database development, machine automation and development, and finally web development. My wife — my best friend — and I moved to San Diego two years ago from Detroit and have enjoyed the weather! I’ve contributed to WP core, am an author of Piklist, and like to contribute where I can. Feel free to approach me and chat about anything!