Say hello to the WordCamp Europe 2022 Organising Team!
Working together from across Europe, the following members of the WordPress community are volunteering their time and skills to help bring you an unforgettable WCEU experience.
Global Team Leads
Four Global Team Leads will be overseeing the organisation of the event to help keep everything on track.
Bringing their professional expertise, previous WordCamp experience and their own individual touch, Bernhard, Lesley, José, and Taeke will help set the tone and energy for WCEU 2022.
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Bernhard Kau
Germany
@2ndkauboyBernhard is a PHP developer living in Berlin. He is a passionate WordPress user, plugin developer and community member. Co-organises his local WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Berlin.
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José Ramón Padrón
Spain
@monchomad
siteground.esSiteGround Spain Country Manager, co-organiser of WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp Las Palmas Gran Canaria. Customer care and sales enthusiast in the hosting sector for the last 21 years.
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Lesley Molecke
United Kingdom
@eckandgrumble
cornershopcreative.comLesley runs Cornershop Creative, a small WordPress agency that caters to non-profits in the United States. Gardener, cat and dog mom, and human mum too. Likes cookie dough more than cookies.
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Taeke Reijenga
Netherlands
@taekereijenga
level-level.comTaeke is a long-time WordPress enthusiast and actively involved in the community. He is the founder and CEO of Level Level, the founder of The A11Y Collective, drone pilot, sourdough baker and overall foodie.
Attendee Services Team
The Attendee Services Team is responsible for audience support and ticket logistics. They will be available throughout the event, making sure attendees have all the information they need.
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Nemanja Cimbaljevic
Serbia
@bikcrveni
cimba.blogPHP, WordPress and WooCommerce backend developer. WP Expert with Codeable. Conference speaker, WordCamps co-organizer and volunteer. Co-organizer of local WP events in Serbia.
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Nikola Stulic
Serbia
@wp_scout
wpscout.ioFather of two beautiful girls. WordPress developer trapped inside the mind of a math teacher and vice versa. Translator and educator. Founder of WPScout. Often doodles the Greek letter Xi. Loves to wear suites and ties.
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Aleksandar Predic
Serbia
@APredic
acapredic.com/Senior PHP / Web / WordPress Developer. #WPSerbia community member, #WPNis co-founder. In a few words, just a very passionate developer that loves crafting simplified WordPress solutions.
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Uros Tasic
Serbia
@wputasicLoves WordPress, food, travelling and meeting people. Every spare moment spent blogging, cooking and sitting glued in front of a laptop until eyes go crazy.
Budget Team
They are continuing to offer their financial expertise, helping to wrap up the event and reallocating the generous contributions from our sponsors.
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Juan Hernando
Spain
@ciudadanob
ciudadanob.comFreelance web developer, specialized in working with designers to create WP custom themes, long-time WP user, open web advocate. Co-organiser of WP Meetups and WordCamps in Pontevedra, Galicia
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Sandro Lucifora
Germany
kybernetik-services.comSandro is a web developer for over 30 years and specialized on WordPress and WooCommerce since 2010. He develops plugins and provides them for free. In his spare time, he is doing sport, loves to travel and meet people all over the world.
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Justina Baskyte
Lithuania
Ecommerce expert & business owner nowadays, WP developer & PM in the past. Meetups organiser & speaker, lt_LT translator. Mom of 2, fan of cats, baking, classic rock & the colour red.
Communications Team
Collaborating closely with all the other organising teams to ensure that attendees are kept up-to-date on the latest WCEU developments via the WCEU blog, social channels, and attendee emails.
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Sjoerd Blom
Netherlands
@sjblom
vertizio.nl/A kind of Jack-of-all-trades caught between WordPress, cooking, travelling and aviation. Theme developer, customer support, polyglot, WordCamp volunteer, WordCamp organiser.
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Steve Mosby
United Kingdom
@Steve_NHS
malgrabooks.co.ukSteve’s day job is managing major transformation programmes within the NHS. Away from the 9-5, he runs Malgra, an online community and bookkeeping service for self employed consultants.
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Matt Ross
United Kingdom
@thisismattuk
jaminternet.ukMatt is a keen WordPresser, having started building with it in 2017. He’s keen to make sure that everyone has a great WCEU, whether in person, or online.
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Michelle Frechette
USA
@michelleames
worksbymichelle.comMichelle is the Director of Community Engagement for StellarWP, Podcaster at WPCoffeeTalk, cofounder of underrepresentedintech.com, president of BigOrangeHeart.org, & contributor at PostStatus.com.
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George Gkouvousis
Greece
@ggloveswp
georgeg.grCo-founder of 8web Interactive, an award-winning agency serving the world wide web tons of megabytes every day through awesome websites and scalable solutions based, built with WordPress.
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Hacer Yilmaz
Portugal
@hatjoe
hydigitaldeveloper.comHacer is a freelance web developer, mainly building sites on WordPress. She mostly serves small businesses and also working as a Webmaster for a Brussels based marketing agency.
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Ariadna Nicieja
Poland
ariadnanicieja.plFreelancer, WordPress enthusiast. In her spare time she is blogging about Jamaican culture and dancing dancehall.
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Ana Gavilán
Spain
@anagavilancomAna is a digital marketing consultant and specialist in creating viable strategies to achieve lasting sales. She runs her own marketing agency. Regular WordPress contributor, she is co-head of the Marketing team of WordPress Spain and captain of the marketing team of WordCamp Spain.
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Mike Johnston
Portugal
@wmjohnston06
thecookandthewriter.com/Retired IT director. Co-founder of Dynamic Strategies Ltd, a business growth & marketing consultancy. I write about business, food and travel on 3 WP sites. Currently living in Porto and loving it!
Content Team
This team is responsible for putting together a rich and varied schedule of talks to inspire and educate WCEU attendees.
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Sabrina Zeidan
Ukraine
@sabrina_zeidan
sabrinazeidan.comWordPress performance, and talking about it. One of the many whose lives have been changed by the WordPress Community. WPKyiv all times, WordCamp Europe 2018 – … . Performance Engineer at XWP.
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Sajjad Usmani
Pakistan
System Support Engineer at 10up. Active community member/organizer for local and International WordCamps. Love mountaineering adventure activities, food and cultures. Like to attend WordCamps and meet people around the world.
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Pedro Mendonça
Portugal
@pedro_gasparHelps the Portuguese WordPress Community to preserve the translation quality and consistency. Translation Editor, i18n and l10n geek, designer, father of two, passionate about LEGO.
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Radu Constantin
Romania
@constraduEager to learn new things every single day, I’m a supporter at WPML, a developer in my spare time, and a motorcycle enthusiast during the weekends.
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Livio Vilela
Portugal
@liviopvLivio is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, passionate about helping people use WordPress to build their sites. Originally from Brazil, currently living in Porto, Portugal.
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Nikola Mihajlovic
Serbia
@MihajlovicN_NSNikola is Technical Writer and Customer Support Specialist at Brainstorm Force, working on the Astra theme docs (and some other products) and helping users build great website. Nikola is also a moderator of the Astra Community on Facebook. Previously, he worked as a freelancer and also has years of event management experience.
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Rúben Martins
Portugal
rubenmartins.ptSenior Software Developer living in Faro, Portugal transforming businesses through disruptive technology solutions. Creating tailor made digital solutions with WordPress since 2014.
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Anjana Vasan
Canada
@anjanavasanAnjana is a Sr. Content Marketing Manager at Automattic, who has spent her marketing career in various agencies working on all things content, from creating SEO website copy on WordPress sites to handling PR campaigns.
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Luke Gedeon
USA
luke.gedeon.nameBackend WP dev at XWP, father of 7, married 23yrs to the most wonderful person on earth, servant of Jesus Christ, lover of language, flags, travel and people, founder WordCamp RI USA, core contributor, volunteer at 10+ WC’s, and promoter of WP since 2004.
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Marchela Petrova
Bulgaria
@BloggingGirl93Graduated Portuguese Philology and Marketing management. Work as a QA tester for mobile app and write language articles in my free time
Community Team
The team is working on raising awareness of contributing to the WordPress project, but also on enhancing the event’s community-building element and, ultimately, making it more fun.
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Takis Bouyouris
Greece
@takisbig
takis.nevma.gr/Web developer/project manager at nevma.gr. In love with WordPress since 2007, WordPress Athens Meetup curator, WordCamp Athens organiser. Enjoys music, books, movies, tv series. Is a pacifist, liberal, internationalist and, recently, a dad.
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José Arcos
Web Developer working for the United Nations. He is part of the WP Spanish Community and has been speaking at WordCamps, organising a local Meetup and helping in the Spanish forums as a moderator.
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Ángel Moreno
Lives in Granada, Spain, with some cats and a couple of chickens. To earn money and fun founded Si2 where he works as CTO & PM. Rest of the time he walks up the mountain, practices Taichi and Kung Fu.
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Penny Anderson
Retired, starting a virtual assistant business to fund travels. Just learning WordPress and have been working on website offering services and travel blog for over a year. Ultimate goal is to do tours for the places I travel to and explore.
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Elli Mouchtari
Greece
elora.media/Marketer based in Athens. Branding Strategist and Content Creator. Loves photography, traveling and meeting new people. Lives with her two dogs. Always eager to learn something new. When she grows up she wants to be an artist.
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Dan Soschin
USA
@dan_soschin
dansoschin.com/Dan’s been building WordPress sites since 2009 and supports strategic initiatives for WordPress.org as an Automattic-sponsored contributor. Dan lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and two children.
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Wendie Huis in t Veld
Netherlands
@dolgelukkig
itsmewendie.comHappiness Engineer at Automatic after 10 years of freelancing as a WordPresser. Active in the community as organiser, volunteer, speaker and visitor of WordCamps and Meetups.
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Nicholas Garofalo
USA
@eidolonnight
nicholasgarofalo.com/Nicholas has been a WordPress user since 2004. With his experience in development and growth marketing, he contributes to WordPress.org Marketing operations as an Automattic-sponsored contributor.
Design Team
The team behind WCEU’s distinctive style and support other teams in their visual communication needs.
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Roberto Tuñón
Spain
@rtunon_
robertotunon.com/Enthusiast of design and technology that spends 120% of his hours creating different projects as a UI/UX and front-end designer while learning something new every day.
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Jonathan Pantani
USA
Jonathan is a creative director who’s joined A8c as a sponsored contributor. Based in San Francisco, he brings rich tech brand experience. When not exploring a new city, he’s a food and fitness fan.
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Ina Morosanu
Moldova
@ina_moroGraphic Designer & Community Manager at WPZOOM. Passionate about user experience both online and offline, in love with layouts, interested in psychology and addicted to hot showers.
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Ruben Zwiers
Netherlands
@rubsel
rubsel.comWordPress web designer & web developer at Radish Concepts in The Netherlands. Part-time nerd and self-proclaimed (craft)beer connoisseur. Next to websites and designs he also builds awesome hamburgers.
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José David Vela Castro
Spain
@JoseDavidVela
josedavidvela.esI consider myself a frontend web developer with a design soul, although I also work as backend on a regular basis and I love WordPress.
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Helder Vilela
Portugal
@helder_vilela
heldervilela.comI’m Helder Vilela, a Portuguese Senior Full Stack Developer / UI & UX Designer living on a small island ( Terceira, Azores) in the middle of the ocean. I love the hard, creative work of designing, building, launching and scaling products.
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Flavia Bernárdez Rodríguez
Spain
@flabernardez
flabernardez.comI love to create, webs, apps or whatever. Now I’m making illustrations for hobby, and webs for living. I organize WordPress Alicante, Spain meetup 😄. My name means yellow btw 🍋
Local Team
On the ground in Porto, the Local Team provides a wealth of knowledge and contacts, making logistics, sourcing local suppliers and venues, and information gathering much easier. Thanks to the work of this team, attendees can learn more about cultural customs and reduce potential barriers or difficulties in language.
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José Freitas
Portugal
@josefreitas
kaksimedia.comJosé helps companies create and run communications strategies to better communicate with customers. Using and building on WordPress since 2008. WordCamp Porto and Lisbon organiser. Former journalist.
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Carlos Miguel Silva
Portugal
@carlosmiguelsnsHusband to a beautiful wife and father to 2 awesome kids.
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Toze Vasconcelos
Portugal
@TozeVasconcelos
tozevasconcelos.comMy professional background comes from designing and building smart homes, and one day I decided to update our company website and found WordPress…and since then, in 2015, I fell in love with WP…
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Pedro Fonseca
Portugal
@pmfonseca1972Helping online businesses gain more clients using WordPress. Active member of the Portuguese WordPress community. Local Meetup and WordCamp co-organiser. Coffee addict.
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Daniela Costa
Portugal
@daniela_d_costaI completed my Master’s Degree in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship in 2009, after completing my degree in Computer Engineering. I began my career as a Web Developer in 2005, specializing in Project Management and now i’m COO of Dipcode (Web development with WordPress). I was in Berlin as member of Communication Team and this year I am part of Local Team in WCEU Organization.
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Jorge Costa
Portugal
@JorgeFSCostaJorge is a passionate software developer writing JavaScript at Automattic. A regular WordPress contributor, he is a core-committer and a member of the #core-editor team.
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Marco Pereirinha
Portugal
@porreirinhaMarco is a Senior Engineer at XWP and was lead organiser for WordCamp Porto ’13, ’16 and ’18. Former wrangler of the local community and experienced speaker at local Meetups.
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Ricardo Correia
Portugal
@rfvcorreia
rcorreia.comRicardo is a Senior Engineer passionate about WordPress. He helps organize WordCamp Porto and is an occasional speaker at local meetups. In his free time he’s often seen at a Padel court.
Photography Team
With images and videos, the Photography Team documents and tells the story of the WordPress community coming together to learn and engage at WCEU. More volunteers will join this team in the run-up to the event.
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Val Vesa
Romania
@adspedia
val.socialVal is a passionate social media manager and loves photography. He is teaching online security classes and travels the world telling stories with photos. Stop him at WCEU and ask for your free portrait shot.
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Pantelis Orfanos
Greece
@ironwiller
pantelisorfanos.comFounder/CEO of BrandSpark LLC. IBO/SP with MMP. Hellenic origin, living in Belgrade. Helping other people achieve more. Loves travelling, hiking, food, diving, Argentine tango & photography.
Public Relations Team
This team connects with media outlets worldwide to help put WCEU on the global events map. Through interviews with speakers and organisers in the run-up to the event, the PR team offers a taster of what attendees can look forward to at WCEU.
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Evangelia Pappa
Greece
@EvangeliaPappas
evangeliapappa.meHR/Recruitment Specialist @WPMU DEV, Blogger, WordPress Community enthusiast, passionate about involvement, openness, accessibility and volunteering. In love with travelling, people & cultures. WordPress Greek Community organiser.
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Silva Nazarian
Russia
@SilvaNazarianSilva wears many hats at PeerBoard, the startup that provides creators with a no-code solution to manage communities. Her roles range between content creation, outreach, partner relations, customer success, and community management.
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Afshana Diya
Bangladesh
@AfshanaDiya
afshana.comCMO at WPDeveloper.com | Community Deputy & Mentor for WordPress.org | Co-Organizer for WordCamp Dhaka | A philonoist exploring the landscape, digital world & everything in between.
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Kostas Vrouvas
Greece
@kosvrouvas
kosvrouvas.devKostas Vrouvas is a freelance WordPress developer based in Greece. He makes websites, e-commerce stores, and web apps. Spends his free time learning new things about the web and making IoT things. Organiser of Athens WordPress meetup and WordCamp Athens.
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Reyes Martínez
Spain
@r_martinezduqueReyes recently joined Automattic as a sponsored contributor to help support the communication and marketing efforts of the WordPress project. When away-from-computer, she enjoys reading, traveling and photography.
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Pantelis Orfanos
Greece
@ironwiller
pantelisorfanos.comFounder/CEO of BrandSpark LLC. IBO/SP with MMP. Hellenic origin, living in Belgrade. Helping other people achieve more. Loves travelling, hiking, food, diving, Argentine tango & photography.
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Tiago Silva Vasconcelos
Portugal
@eventoseviagens
eventoseviagens.comWedding Planner and Web Designer. I am graduated in Computer Engineering, but I always loved to organize and plan events. So I opened, last December, my own Events and web design company – Eventos e Viagens.
Sales & Sponsors Team
Working closely with our generous sponsors to ensure an enjoyable WCEU for all involved.
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Jason Rouet
France
@JasonRouet
jasonna.deI am working for Whodunit, a French full remote web agency, and I currently live in the West of France. At the community level, I am the Secretary of WPFR.net, the French speaking association of WordPress users. Let’s have a coffee or beer together in Porto!
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Marko Tanaskovic
Serbia
@thassalianIT & Marketing professional with years of experience in Agile development and SaaS products coming from ManageWP team in Belgrade, Serbia. Passionate about projects that improve people lives.
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David Pérez
Spain
@davidperezmk
en.davidperezgar.comCTO at Close·marketing, a Marketing Agency that works exclusively with WordPress. Passionated with the community, I’m WordPress TV editor, Granada’s Meetup Organizer and I was team leader organizer of WordCamp Granada’19. Enthousiastic to contribute and support to make an exceptional WCEU’22!!!
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Carole Olinger
Germany
@CaroleOlingerSocial Media Manager at XWP & Head of CloudFest Hackathon.
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Anne-Mieke Bovelett
Germany / Italy
@Bovelett
annebovelett.euTeaches WordPress & Elementor | Creates custom video documentation for WP plugins | accessibility advocate | Jack of many trades in Web, Art, Music, Food | 🇳🇱 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 | Speaker
Volunteers Team
WordCamps everywhere are only possible with the hard work of volunteers who sign up to lend their time and energy to make sure everything runs smoothly during the event. The Volunteer Team for Porto 2022 has the illustrious, but hugely satisfying, job of recruiting, training, organising and managing upwards of 250 individuals for three days.
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Fotis Routsis
Greece
@froutsis
routsis.grAthenian fullstack developer and proud member of the WordPress Greek community & WCGR/WCATH organiser! Loves to code and to scuba dive (not at the same time), but mostly he loves the big WP family!
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Felipe Santos
Brazil / Portugal
@felipelousantos
felipels.comFelipe works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic on the WooCommerce team. He loves being part of projects with strong social impact, and you can see him mostly at the Polyglots and Support teams on WP.org.
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Iakovos Frountas
Greece
@froudas
frountas.comIakovos is a WordPress developer based in Greece. He is a coffee lover and co-organiser of the Athens WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp Athens.
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Aleksandar Savkovic
Serbia
@WPAleksWordPress Developer, Lecturer, the product oriented.
WordCamp and WP/Woo Meetup meetup speaker and Organizer.
WordPress Community Manager at Cloudways
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Jelena Sobic
Serbia
@Razli_cakCustomer Happiness Engineer for ManageWP and GoDaddy’s Pro Sites during work hours, Speech and language therapist for the rest of the time. WordPress enthusiast. I love dogs, walks, books, cycling…
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Matt Cromwell
Germany
@learnwithmattc
mattcromwell.comMatt is co-Founder and runs Operations at GiveWP. He’s served nonprofit organizations for 20 years as fundraising consultant, board member, and volunteer and more. He enjoys Democratizing Generosity.
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Marco Andrei Kichalowsky
Brazil
@marcoandrei
marcoandrei.comMarco Andrei is webmaster and PHP developer at arsnova.digital. He is evolved with community since 2015. WordPress Polyglot and lead organizer of WordCamp Porto Alegre 2017, his hometown.
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Pedro Carvalho
Portugal
@43oakPedro is a senior Backend Developer. He is a plugin author, core contributor, speaker and part of the WordCamp Portugal since 2016. Pedro loves to travel, surf and meet new people.
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Matthew Wire
Portugal
www.mjw.ptMatthew is a Consultant/Developer for CiviCRM integration with WordPress. He lives in Portugal and is also a part-time wine and cider producer.
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Jose Luis Losada
Spain
@JoseLuis_LosadaVolunteer in the WordCamps that allow me to do so, co-organizer in Pontevedra meetup and WordCamp, as well as in Spain, Venezuela and Galicia. Collaborator and moderator of the WP Spain support forum.
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Sveta Guzovskaia
Russia / Portugal
@sveta_gskyRussian soul based in Lisbon. With a background in digital marketing, project management, and UI/UX design. Now working as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Foodie, digital nomad and a bit of a nerd.
