Ahammed Mirdas – Founder of PluginHive
I am Ahammed Mirdas, and I am the Founder of PluginHive from Bangalore, India. From a young age, I was passionate about solving problems — whether it was through mathematics, chess, or helping out in my family’s business. Later, during…
Alex Florescu – Founder of ShortPixel
I am Alex Florescu. I live in Bucharest, Romania, and I’ve been playing around with computers since I can remember. I studied computer science and spent the last 20 years building stuff online. These days, I lead product development at…
July 10, 2020 / PluginsI am Michael Makijenko, the founder and CEO of Visual Composer. I'm from Riga, Latvia, and together with my team we are proudly serving and helping users worldwide to get their business online. I have a master’s degree in Telecommunications,…
June 8, 2020 / PluginsI am Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier (a pretty complicated name right?), people call me JB that’s much easier. I’m the co-founder and CEO of WP Media. Our mission is to help people having faster websites. We have two products so far WP…
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May 27, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Anthony Gordon, founder of WooSignal, RoomsLocal, CodaMarket, and a few other startups. I’m originally from Birmingham, UK (near Moseley Village). I still visit Birmingham now and again but I travel around more nowadays. My childhood has been…
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May 8, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Benjamin Denis, founder of SEOPress, I live in Anglet, France (right next to Biarritz, which is popular among surfers). 12 years ago I started working with WordPress in my spare time as a student of Economics Management…
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May 7, 2020 / Plugins, WordCamp SpeakersI am Oliver Sild, the founder of WebARX (now Patchstack), a web security company protecting websites from third-party code (such as WordPress plugins/themes) vulnerabilities. I live in Estonia where I have previously co-founded a co-working space and a cybersecurity community…
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April 10, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Yoni Luksenberg and I am from Bnei Brak, Israel. I've been working with WordPress for close to ten years now. Before that, I was a video editor and used to work with animating flash banners. One day,…
