Damien Carbery
Damien has been dabbling in programming since long before he had a computer. In 2007 he used WordPress to blog about typos but it’s all programming articles about WordPress now. Finding a useful do_action() or apply_filters() will make his day.
He’s a busy stay at home father and freelance WordPress developer that enjoys reading source code. He’s also an annoying cycling evangelist, heel striking parkrun regular and cookie baker.
Ian Clevett
I have 15 years experience working in the web industry working my way up from junior to head of creative for some of the biggest companies in the world such Apple, Pfizer, Betvictor, Skrill, 888.com & Unicef whilst having an excellent reputation with my peers as a coder, designer and innovator and for last three years, a business owner. I specialise in creating WordPress websites that convert from the ground up using roots.io and WordPress theme’s such as Flatsome and Avada. Creating websites in WordPress is one thing but selling them as a viable solution to business owners is a whole different ball game!
Mark Scully
Mark is an Inbound Marketing Specialist, experienced freelance SEO consultant and co-founder of Learn Inbound, an inbound marketing training company based in Dublin. He’s on a mission to help marketers improve their knowledge of inbound marketing by working with leading experts to share actionable tips, tactics, and strategies at a series of events and training courses in Ireland. Over the past three years, he has helped to build Learn Inbound into an internationally renowned conference attended by more than 2,000 marketers from over 25 countries.
Mark Smallman
Mark has been working with WordPress since 2009. Creating WordPress powered sites for companies and corporations of all sizes.
When Mark started out with WordPress, he was living Scotland, and attended a few of the Meetups in Edinburgh.
After returning to his native Northern Ireland in 2013, and having found there wasn’t an existing WordPress Meetup there, he set about creating the WPBelfast Meetup group, which still meet monthly.
Mark was also lead organiser for the inaugural WCBelfast 2016.
Sean Blakeley
Sean Blakeley discovered WordPress in early 2006 and has never looked back. He loved the flexibility it gave him and the control it gave his clients. From those early, simple websites he’s grown to work with some household names and become tech lead on large, enterprise projects. Sean’s endlessly amazed at the depth of features and functions the WordPress community have created together – he’s still finding gems even now! He is currently Producer & Product Owner at one of the largest WordPress agencies in the UK – Pragmatic. Last month, he gave a well-received long-form talk about using the WordPress API at Brighton WordCamp.
Gerald Glynn
Gerald fell into Web Development attempting to impress an artist he was trying to woo. At the time he was researching the Jaipur Foot, a prosthetic limb from India, and had little more experience in web technologies other than writing HTML in Netscape Compose and uploading to the family Eircom Homepage account – unfortunately eircom.net/~gerbuzz no longer seems to be with us :'(
With the help of WordPress for Dummies he managed to build his first CMS site for local Galway band Bahh; with more more word-of-mouth coming his way he started freelancing under the trading name Gesture Media. He now works as the Senior Web Developer at BrightWork, a Galway-based Project Management software company.
Heather Burns
Heather Burns is a digital law specialist in Glasgow, Scotland. She researches, writes, publishes, consults, and speaks extensively on internet laws and policies which affect the crafts of web design and development. She has been designing and developing web sites since 1997 and has been a professional web site designer since 2007. She holds a postgraduate certification in internet law and policy from the University of Strathclyde.
Rodolfo Melogli
Author, WooCommerce expert, Web Developer and Internet marketer, Rodolfo is the organiser of the Dublin Ecommerce Meetup and the co-organiser of the Dublin WooCommerce Meetup and the Dublin WordPress Meetup.
He enjoys interacting with people, running on the beach and chasing tennis & soccer balls. Of course, he loves pizza too.
Jochen Lillich
Jochen Lillich is the founder and CEO of freistil IT, a distributed team of web operations experts running the managed hosting platform freistilbox. After studying computer science in the 90’s, Jochen founded a number of IT businesses and gained experience in IT management at leading internet companies in Germany. Today, Jochen lives with his family near Dublin, Ireland.
Eoin Dixon Murphy
Founder and Creative Director of two digital agencies (CASTLE33 & Craft Digital) based in Dublin, Eoin has been involved in digital marketing for over 10 years. Outside of work Eoin is a mentor, blogger and mental health advocate, with a real love for spreading positivity and productivity in both entrepreneurship and personal life.
Over the years Eoin has built over 20 WordPress sites across multiple industries, charities, organisations and personal projects, and doesn’t intend to stop any time soon!
Fellyph Cintra
I started my career with web development in 2006. I’m Brazilian and now I’m based in Dublin, Ireland. My specialty is front-end, HTML, CSS, Javascript – these are the things that I like work. Addicted learner always looking for something new to learn in my free time.
My history with WordPress started in 2008, when I developed my first theme. After this, I worked in many companies using WordPress. In 2010 I created the first WordPress course in São Paulo inside the technical school DRC. For 6 years I worked for digital agencies – most of this time I used to work with WordPress. Then I started working with companies, such as UOL, where I was responsible to administrate the “blogosfera”, a WordPress multisite with more than 40 blogs in this time.
For 3 years I was volunteer and organizer of WordCamp São Paulo. This year I had the opportunity to be a volunteer in WordCamp Europe 2016.
Luminus Olumide Alabi
WooCommerce Happiness Ninja at Automattic with a penchant for helping people figure out the easiest and most reliable way to achieve their objectives. Sometimes coder, abysmal designer and wannabe social butterfly with a 6th-degree black belt in hanging out
Beatrice Whelan
Beatrice Whelan is Global Content Manager for Social Media, Events and Blogs at Sage, providing social and inbound content strategy for Sage across 24 markets. She is the author of Trending: The Complete Guide to Social Media for Events.
Before joining Sage in 2011 Beatrice worked in Google and from there became a WordPress developer for six years. During this time she received the award for Best Accessible Website in the eGovernment Awards for her work on an accessible WordPress site for Kildare Leisure Services. She was co-organiser of Blog Awards Ireland in 2012 and 2013 and has also served on the board of the Irish Internet Association.
She has written for Huffington Post, Business Plus, Circa Art Magazine and Tweak Your Biz. Her work for Sage has received many awards including Best Inbound Marketing Campaign, Social Media Awards (2013) and Best Use of Social, Advocate Marketing Awards (2016).
Tammie Lister
I work at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com as an experience designer. I have a varied background including psychology, design, front end development and user experience. I am a contributor to WordPress and currently the design lead for Gutenberg.
Micheal Reilly
The founder and CTO of Educated Machine he has been programming and developing applications for over 10 years. He also has 6 years teaching experience having delivered and developed courses in programming, mathematics, WordPress, Data Analytics and App development for adults and children. He spends far too much time wondering why the industrial revolution happened and thinking about space.
Steve Deane
Steve ranks WordPress websites on page one of Google for fun and profit. Now he teaches web developers & designers to do the same through his SEO Business Blueprint program https://www.seobusinessblueprint.com/.
Fun facts about Steve:
- Developed 2 themes for the WordPress.org theme directory
- Has 1 client website featured in The WordPress Showcase (official)
- Travels up to 12 weeks per year with his wife and 2 daughters
Seamus Brady
I am a software developer living and working in Dublin, Ireland.
I am a polyglot programmer who can work in many languages including Java, Smalltalk, Clojure, Racket, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, VB.NET and PHP.
I also dabble a bit in writing.
Tim O’Driscoll
I have over 17 years experience in IT Management, Web Development, Graphic Presentation, Document Management & Project Management.
I have a strong working knowledge of two of the internet’s most popular CMS platforms Drupal and WordPress. I am currently the webmaster of a Drupal website which receives 100k+ visits per year.
I am a troubleshooting specialist providing support for various technical and dataflow issues and pride myself on being able to find a solution to issue.
My passion for Social Marketing ensuring that all the SME’s I work for have a strong understanding of the best practices to use for each Social Media platform.
In 2016 my work was shortlisted for 13 Corks Digital Marketing Awards including Best Digital Marketing by an NGO/Charity, Best use of Facebook, Best Website – business in existence less than 3 years & Best Use of Twitter – business with less than 20 employees.
Underpinning these achievements is the close monitoring of various analytics and being fluid in the natures of content creation for both website and the ever changing nature of social media.
In my spare time I like to share the knowledge that I have gathered throughout my career in IT by teaching.
In late 2016 I was Invited to Queens University Belfast to Present “Social media Tips & Trick for Business” at the the first ever WordCamp to take place within Northern Ireland. This allowed me to showcase my knowledge of not only Social Media but Web Development and the use of Analytical information and how all these elements can be intertwined to result in a successful online presence.
I am continually on the lookout for new technologies that can assist businesses construct an IT environment that suits their economic & project needs. I believe the use of automatic practices & information contained in big data should be capitalised on by all business both big and small to ensure that these companies have a strong footing in this current technological dependent culture.
Manoj Chawla
My Passion is in Technology (internet and all things related) and Business. I am a full stack entrepreneur, consultant, speaker and mentor/coach. When not working on my own start-ups, I help businesses transform and reinvent themselves or other entrepreneurs start their business. We developed our first website in the 1990s and have developed solutions in everything from EIS, data warehousing, websites, ecommerce, mobile apps, voice apps etc.
I have worked across a whole host of businesses, held C level positions at Blue chip companies and worked on major business transformation projects such as one of the first implementations of SAP for clients such as General Electric.
Claude Saulnier
Claude Saulnier is the Founder and Head of Innovation at Wandsoft. Wandsoft is an Irish software and service company focused on Customer Relationship Management solutions. At Wandsoft, Claude’s role is to ensure that the applications can be managed easily, securely and without creating unnecessary overheads.
Claude runs a series of pragmatic workshops aimed at getting to understand where to start with the General Data Protection Regulation. The interest for the General Data Protection Regulation comes both from a business need for Wandsoft, but in realisation that it could be overwhelming when you don’t know where to start. Claude is a European Frenchman, with the original accent. Thanks to Erasmus, he caught the travelling bug over 25 years ago.
He is a graduate from the University of Saint Etienne (France) and Coventry University (UK). Throughout his career, he lived in 5 countries and worked across almost all continents. Prior to moving to Ireland in 1999, Claude worked as the Head of IT for Boots Healthcare in France and as a senior IT auditor for a British plc.
Amanda Webb
Amanda from Spiderworking has been working in the digital marketing space since 2009.
She works with small businesses in Ireland, the UK and beyond helping them develop and implement strategies and campaigns.
She was named one of Social Media Examiner’s Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2017 an international contest.
She has written for some of the world’s best social media websites including Jon Loomer, Social Media Examiner and RazorSocial. She’s also a regular contributor to the AgoraPulse blog.
Her first book ‘The Blogging Formula’ (working title) on small business blogging is launching in 2017
Kayleigh Thorpe
I am a WordPress Support Specialist at 34SP.com. I have used WordPress both in my personal and professional life for many years and I enjoy being a part of the community.
Kevin Lydon
Kevin is the co-founder and Director of Green T Digital here in Dublin. He brings to the table 12 years experience of working within the digital sector with a primary focus in WordPress and web development. He started building websites 20 years ago at the tender age of 15 working with basic HTML, paint and Dreamweaver. As the years and technology progressed he began to learn CSS and PHP which eventually led him to WordPress in 2007. Since then he has became profoundly proficient in the open source platform, developed well over 100+ sites, integrated dozens of systems to WordPress and has became a real WordPress rock star.
Yannick Gaultier
Initially trained as a mechanical engineer, I spent 20 years in a non-IT industry. I then started some web projects, mostly centered around SEO. This was a hobby in 2006, but 3 years later, and to this date, it became my full time job. I run a small company handling development and support for our open source CMS plugins.
Seeing how important Accelerated Mobile Pages was to become we developed weeblrAMP (https://wordpress.org/plugins/weeblramp/), an AMP plugin for WordPress, as well as a Joomla AMP extension, from the start of 2016, to enable AMP pages on sites with both a lot of ease and high degree of customization.
Geoffrey Keating
Geoffrey is an Editor at Intercom. Co-author of four books, Intercom on Onboarding, Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done, and Intercom on Startups, he helps writers clearly explain their ideas to Intercom’s readers. In a past life, he worked as a UX designer for clients such as Vodafone and Zurich International, and co-founded the design conference Rebase.
Juan Felipe Rincón
Juan Felipe is Global Lead on Search Outreach within Google’s Search Quality team, and his team’s mission is to help Webmasters create great online content and make it accessible to users. Prior to joining Google, he spent the better part of the previous 15 years in the mobile and wireless industry, focusing on developer evangelism back when building mobile apps involved trying to put things on tiny little flip phones.
Úna Ní Fhlannagáin
Úna ní Fhlannagáin is one of Ireland’s top harpists. This year she won Ireland’s most prestigious Irish traditional music competition, the Bonn Óir. She is rooted in Irish traditional music, but also branches into jazz, pop, and original composition, including collaborations with Grammy winner Bobby McFerrin, and free jazz legend Anthony Braxton. Passionate about music education, she has 58 harp students. She loves teaching 3-year-olds, eating mango, and swimming in the sea!