WordCamp Birmingham is thrilled to announce the speakers in our Developer Track.
Tickets are available now. Just $50 for the full weekend, including 2 days of talks and workshops, lunch both days, event t-shirt, other event swag, and a fantastic after party!
Marco Berrocal
Topic: WordPress and Consent Management Platforms
Marco Berrocal is a self taught WordPress developer out of Costa Rica, who enjoys everything that is related to WordPress or anything that finishes with a semicolon, really.
Code is his passion, but so is giving others the little knowledge he has gathered over the years. Why? To quote Winston Churchill, “you make a living by what you receive, but make a life by what you give”.
When not coding, its time with his kids, food, reading and ok, also playing Fortnite.
Zachary Skaggs
Topic: A Brief Introduction to Agile Development
Zach is a certified Professional Scrum Master (PSMI/II) and certified Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPOI) and has been a part of the WordPress community since 2014 when he joined a WordPress development company in the Chattanooga area. He has facilitating discussions and spoken at local meetups in the Chattanooga area as well as WordCamp Atlanta. Currently he works in Birmingham on the product team of a local software company and regularly facilitates discussions on and coaches others in agile methods through the Agile Water Cooler community.
Steve Jones
Topic: The Accessibility-First WordPress Development Methodology
Steve Jones is the Chief Technology Officer at Equalize Digital. Steve has developed highly custom WordPress websites for clients in the enterprise business, higher ed, and government sectors while also being an integral part of the development of Equalize’s accessibility auditing software, Accessibility Checker.
Micah Wood
Topic: Interactive Debugging in PHP
Micah is a WordPress developer at Bluehost. He’s a WordPress core contributor, plugin developer, and meetup organizer and has spent the last 12+ years learning, living, and building with WordPress.
Paul Gilzow
Topic: Regex – Demystifying the Hieroglyphics
Developer Relations Engineer at Platform.sh. Former Programmer/Analyst-Principal at the University of Missouri. Web application security and accessibility evangelist. Software instructor. Conference lecturer and presenter. Runs on passion and coffee. Outside of work, you’ll find Gilzow mountain biking, snowboarding, enjoying live music with his kids, and dancing wherever the mood strikes.
Kyle Johnson
Topic: Using Gutenberg as a Development Foundation, Not Just a Block Builder
Kyle Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer for GiveWP and a contributor to WordPress core, WP-CLI, and Gutenberg. He speaks at WordCamps and Open Source conferences – as well as to anyone who wants to learn about professional software development. As a collector of hobbies he is also a musician, furniture maker, amateur lock pick, avid reader, and wannabe book author.
