Vedanshu Jain
I’m a coder at Automattic, and a new(ish) addition to the WordPress world. I come from Ruby on Rails world, and tinker with the new and shiny when not working.
Hugh Lashbrooke
I’m an Automattican who puts the priorities life in this order: God, Family, WordPress, Star Wars. I’ve been a lover of WordPress since 3.0 — especially its extensibility. I’ve spoken about crafting plugins, the WordPress community, and how to get the most out of WordCamp. Though I’m a developer at heart, my passion is to work on programs that support the worldwide WordPress community. When I’m not answering questions in Slack or blogging about the latest news in WordPress, you can find me spending time with my wife and children, creating crossword puzzles, tweeting out a good pun, or adding appropriate GIFs to tweets.
Daine Mawer
A Front-end Engineer at 10up, Daine has been a committed (no Git pun intended) and passionate open source follower for over 6 years now. Completely self-taught from the ground up, Daine has managed to grab the attention of many award-winning agencies and media houses in South Africa, not to mention international brands such as Women’s Health, Men’s Health and award-winning author, Ken Follett.
Daine’s roots truly began in education. Having trained some of South Africa’s biggest corporates in digital technologies, he found himself contributing not only to the business sector but to tertiary education as well. Daine has planned, developed, lectured and implemented web courses for students, professionals and newcomers; covering everything from UX, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and WordPress Development. He is also an Envato Tuts+ Author and contributes regularly to the site.
He’s currently focusing his attention on delving deeper into Javascript, specifically React and NodeJS.
Daine gravitated to WordPress early on in his career, learning the ins and outs of theme and plugin development. He regularly contributes to the WordPress.org support forums, speaks at WordPress South Africa MeetUps and WordCamp Cape Town
When the laptop closes, Daine fills his time travelling, running and spending most of his disposable income on coffee in and around Cape Town’s hip food and restaurant culture. The laptop tends to open again to mess around with electronic music production and synthesis.
Oduor Ken Jagero
Oduor Jagero is the founder and Lead at CMS Africa and CMS Africa Summit. He is the CEO of Koamedia, a company that specializes in web development, domains, and web consultancies. When he is not in tech, he writes. He has written two novels, True Citizen and Ghosts of 1894.
Jonathan Bossenger
I’m an open source advocate who believes in sustainable business building by equipping my clients with tools that work for their business goals. As a lifelong learner, I’m always finding new projects and skills to refine. I have spoken about several topics at WordCamps, Meetups, and in podcasting including how to contribute to open source and understanding the GPL. I’m also one of co-organisers of the WordPress Cape Town Meetup, work on the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin, and am an expert at Codeable. When I’m not performing code reviews, you can find me spending time with my children, training Gracie Jiu Jitsu, and mentoring others in the WordPress community.
Lindeni Mahlalela
Lindeni Mahlalela is a dedicated WordPress developer with focus on custom business oriented WordPress plugins and solutions with much love for WordPress and open source projects. Currently, Lindeni is maintaining one of the leading WooCommerce extensions and building awesome business tools for businesses.
When he is not coding WordPress plugins, Lindeni burns his fingers trying to build cool things using micro controllers.
Claire Nieuwoudt
Hates writing bios. Loves cats, picnics and her husband. Is happiest when all three loves coincide. Been entrepreneuring since 2012. Delights customers for a living through the making and selling of ties, bow ties and suspenders online. Website: bowtiesandbraces.co.za
Matt Bush
CTO and Co-founder of Trust My Travel.
Freelance web developer living in Cape Town for the last 13 years and working almost entirely with WordPress.
Thabo Tswana
Thabo Tswana joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in February 2018. He is also an open source junkie, WordPress fanboy, and professional GIF sharer. Thabo was the primary organizer for the very first WordCamp Harare and is a co-organizer for Harare WordPress Meetup.
Chido Warambwa
I am a software developer based in Cape Town passionate about the I.T industry and it’s potential to bring about a positive impact on the world.
I also really enjoy making developer’s lives easier by thinking through current software development standards, and how to best utilize them to allow developers to focus on what they really want to do.
I am a bit of a programming nerd:)
Hanna Partridge
I am part Entrepreneur, part executive,part content manager and part designer and editor and part amateur coder, and a keen WooCommerce and WordPress supporter and challenger. I am the Managing Director, and Editor&Developer of the International Horze brand in South-Africa which sells both wholesale, and retail. This is an equestrian brand. I am passionate about how our amazing website horze.co.za. I love implementing and working on new features and doing the impossible on these platforms, coming up with new ideas for plugins to develop through developers and we have some unique amazing plugins which shows what WordPress and WooCommerce is capable of doing. Twitter: @Hanna_117
Trisha Cornelius
Trisha Cornelius has been playing with WordPress since she ran away to Costa Rica with her husband at the end of 2009. She has an interest in HTML and CSS, and has written a WordPress plugin, “The Turtle Moves” for her own amusement. Trisha loves the WordPress community and thinks that WordPress is a wonderful way to help people find their voice and share it with the world.
Anchen le Roux
Anchen le Roux is the CEO and lead developer of Simply Digital Design a boutique studio in Pretoria specialising in working with photographers or creatives and the experience around creating a website.
She has a passion for everything WordPress and loves being part and contributing to the WP community.
Anchen is passionate about green, simple and nomadic living and occasionally find time to play the bass guitar.
Bruce Lunnis
Startup Grind Global Community Manager, Co-Organiser of WordPress Cape Town & WordCamp Cape Town, WordPress development agency owner, and digital nomad.
Pascal Birchler
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. Living in a multilingual country, Pascal is passionate about internationalisation and improving this area in WordPress to make the web a better place.
Job Thomas
I’m the only Belgian in the WooCommerce team at Automattic. I lead one of the WooCommerce support teams. I’ve been working with WordPress for about 10 years, and mostly enjoy just breaking things in order to learn. In 2013, I moved to South Africa for the best reason in the book: love.