Kristen Symonds

Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and more.

Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zoë. She is also a Christian and plays flute and guitar.

WordPress Origin Story

I started on Blogger for a university assignment in which I had to keep a journal. I decided to keep blogging and in the process learned HTML and CSS. When I decided I needed more control and flexibility than Blogger could provide I moved to WordPress and have been hooked ever since.

Session

(Not) Just another WP REST API Talk

Who is speaking at #WCAKL2017?

Pam Kocke

New Orleans resident Pam Kocke works for Automattic, spending her days engineering happiness for WordPress.com users and hiring more Happiness Engineers.

She started blogging over a dozen years ago while training for her first marathon. In her free time, she enjoys photographing and blogging about her identical triplet sons Linus, Oliver, and Miles.

She is an organizer of the New Orleans WordPress Meetup, and enjoys traveling to other places to speak about WordPress. Pam blogs at pyjammy.blog.

Pam’s coming all the way from the USA… what are YOU waiting for?

Matthew Knighton

Matthew has been creating Websites and Web Apps for over 10 years and with that maturing of WordPress it has become his go to choice for the websites and more and more it is his team’s go to choice for web apps.

You need to see the API in action… get your ticket!

Ngaire Ackerley

Ngaire has over 9 years experience designing and developing websites in New Zealand and the UK. She was a co-organiser of the WordPress London Meetup Group and has spoken at many WordCamps and conferences across the UK, USA and NZ. Ngaire works in Digital Design by day and freelances designing and developing custom WordPress-based websites.

Travel and Photography Site: http://kiwifootprints.com

Design and Development of WordPress Websites: http://designack.com

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