First group of speakers – Development & Gutenberg

We’d like to present our first group of speakers. Put your hands together for the first group who will present on topics related to Development and Gutenberg.

Andrey Savchenko

Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko is a WordPress contractor from Kiev, Ukraine.

He believes in a Web of content sites that are a delight to discover, read, and navigate. For that he helps other developers with complex tasks and long–term value goals. His services include: make it fast, automate menial tasks, stare down a legacy codebase, fix the world (one bug at a time).

In his free time he likes to drink tea, read science fiction, and read every tweet in his timeline.

Antonio Villegas

Antonio Villegas obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2013. He has several publications in the field of data mining and information retrieval applied to conceptual modeling and health informatics. Now he’s one of the founders of Nelio Software, a company from Barcelona devoted to WordPress plugin development. Antonio is an active contributor to the WordPress community in Spain and participates in local meetups and WordCamps. He’s currently a member of the Attendee Services team organizing WordCamp Europe 2019.

Bjørn Johansen

Bjørn has been a full-time web developer since 2001, and has during those years touched upon many areas including consulting, training, project management, client support, and DevOps. He has worked with WordPress since 2006, and he is a plugin author, core contributor, WordCamp speaker, WordCamp co-organizer and Translation Editor for Norwegian Bokmål. Currently, he works as CTO at Maksimer in Norway.

Felix Arntz

Felix is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google and WordPress core committer from Germany, currently residing in Switzerland. He has been involved in contributing to WordPress and the open web for several years. His efforts revolve around both user experience and developer experience, with adoption of progressive web technologies and modern best practices, and application of proper data structures and design patterns. Within WordPress core, he is a maintainer of the Multisite, Capabilities and REST API components. In addition to that, he has published numerous open source plugins and libraries. Before joining Google, he was a freelancer and part-time contractor for Yoast.

When not doing WordPress stuff, he spends his time producing music, playing the piano and soccer. He does all of that while drinking a lot of Mountain Dew.

Jenny Wong

Combining an electronics & art background, Jenny joined the tech world as a PHP developer and now works as an Engineering Manager at Human Made. When she started, she spent her first two weeks organising a conference. She can often be found evangelising the open source community, as an event organiser and occasionally, speaker.

Kristoffe Biglete

I am Marketing Technology Manager at Falcon.io, a social media management SaaS.
I develop & design sharp, good-looking and efficient websites,I am specialized in information & communication technologies.
Specialties: web development & webdesign, responsive design, flat & retro-modern design, HTML & CSS, WordPress, project & event management.
http://kristoffe.fr

Marco Fernandes

Marco Fernandes is a senior developer in Frontkom – a company of 45 behind Gutenberg JS and Drupal Gutenberg. He is the lead developer and maintainer of the Drupal Gutenberg module.
He is a more than decent bike rider and builds cool online games in his spare time.

Thor Andre Gretland

Thor Andre Gretland (37) is senior consultant at Frontkom – a company of 45 behind Gutenberg JS and Drupal Gutenberg. His recent projects include some of Norway’s most prolific Universities, like NMBU.no. This spring he is leading the Gutenberg implementation for Unicef.no – on Drupal!

Thor Andre is also former board leader of the Norwegian Drupal Association. He loves his family of 4, guitars, and a good laugh.