The WordCamp San Diego organizing team is excited to announce our Gutenberg lineup of speakers for the Coast Guard track.
Matt Cromwell
Matt 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’s a popular blogger at his personal site (mattcromwell.com),wordimpress.com, givewp.com, and mediatemple.net.
Roy Sivan
Roy has been using WordPress since the early days. Nowadays he is a senior software developer that specializes in WordPress & front end tech at The Walt Disney Company. He loves seeing how far he can take development and think outside of the box to build new and crazy things, or combine bleeding edge tech with WordPress. He is also socially awkward, but apparently people say hi to him all the time anyway.
Kevin Hoffman
Kevin Hoffman is a Pittsburgh-based WordPress Engineer at WordImpress. He has contributed as a designer and developer to several plugins including GiveWP and the upcoming WP Business Reviews. After graduating from Drexel University with a degree in Digital Media, Kevin navigated a career that included time as a freelancer, agency developer, business owner, and his current role as a WordPress plugin developer. As an advocate of scalability and modularity in plugin design, Kevin enjoys sharing that perspective with the community.
Jen Miller
Combining her lifelong journalism, public relations and website experience, Jen Miller created NeedSomeoneToBlog.com, a highly-targeted, hyperlocal blogging service and sought ways to further enhance client authority, trust and engagement, so launched her agency, Need Someone To, LLC. As host of Be Seen Blogging and co-host of Community Connections, a WP Watercooler network show, Jen helps people gain skills and share their stories. In 2018 in an effort to better understand Gutenberg, Jen enrolled in Udacity’s Front-end Developer program. One of her most valuable take-aways has been recognizing that, “You don”t have to start as a developer to become one.”
Jen Miller has served on the organizing boards of Word Camp, Los Angeles, WordCamp, Orange County and WordCamp, Riverside. She founded WomenWhoWP.org, a nonprofit and Meetup to support women in WordPress. She volunteers as a Team Rep on the make.WordPress.org Marketing Team. Jen also actively participates in several civic groups, serves on the Public Affairs Council for her church, and has been instrumental in publicizing civic events in Southern California since 1989.
Michael Bastos
Self & University taught C++, Java, PHP, Perl and Ruby Developer, Data Scientist & Former Marine working as the Chief Technology Officer of LocalStack.com in San Diego with a BSCS degree.
Phil Crumm
I’m a seasoned technologist, entrepreneur, and strategic leader focused on creating delightful user experiences with sensible, robust approaches.
I’m currently Director of Strategic Opportunities at 10up; previously, I worked as an engineer at Pogoseat and Automattic. In my free time, I contributed to a handful of open source software projects, and occasional dabble in my own projects, too.
I’m an avid auto enthusiast, recreational pilot, and occasionally pretty-decent golfer.