We are halfway through our speaker and workshop announcements for WordCamp Europe 2019!
Our fifth speaker announcement is for the Development I category, check back tomorrow for the second part of this category.
Anesa Colakovic
Education Innovators
Anesa has travelled to more than 60 countries and speaks more than 5 languages. Her hobbies include dancing to Latin rhythm, cooking Indian food, and training karate.
David Needham
Find that bug you made months ago with Git Bisect
David has a heart for helping beginners to feel empowered and to grow. He uses his own experience to explain topics, ranging from fundamental building blocks to soft skills such as productivity and public speaking, clearly and concisely. David has presented on Drupal and WordPress dozens of times, including at DrupalCons in Chicago, London, Denver, Munich, Portland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Vienna, Nashville, and Drupal Europe 2018; as well lots of WordCamps, including WCEU in Belgrade.
George Gkouvousis
[Workshop] Deploying a WordPress webserver in minutes
George is co-founder of 8web Interactive, has been a full stack developer for more than eight years, and is an official WPML contractor and rtCamp’s EasyEngine project expert. Handling some serious projects in Greece and London, he helps serve the world wide web tons of megabytes every day through awesome websites and scalable solutions.
John Jacoby
Advanced database management for plugins
John is a software developer and project lead for BuddyPress and bbPress, as well as a WordPress core contributor, component maintainer, and security team member.
Jonathan Bossenger
[Workshop] Travelling the web on the WordPress HTTP API
Jonathon is an open source, freelance web developer from Cape Town, South Africa. His time is currently split between being lead developer on Seriously Simple Podcasting/Castos and working with clients from around the world through Codeable. Jonathon enjoys writing and sharing knowledge with others and regularly speaks and blogs about development or related topics, from hosting to freelance business practices.
Maura Teal
Develop with Docker: Containers for everyone!
Maura is a software engineer at Pagely and previously developed for WordPress at scale at a large media company. She is an open source and emoji enthusiast, and is a firm believer that speaking about and sharing life experiences — both failures and successes — builds lasting connections.
Pascal Birchler
On multilingual WordPress sites
Pascal is a software engineer and WordPress core developer based in Zurich, Switzerland. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and is an avid member of the community. Most recently, Pascal joined Google as a developer programs engineer to help advance WordPress even more. Living in a multilingual country, he is passionate about internationalisation and improving this area in WordPress to make software for accessible for everyone.