I initially got involved with WordPress around 2007 to use it on my own business website. My background is in graphic design and part of that was to build simple websites. Three or four years later I began developing websites for customers using WordPress, primarily designing website designs to fit their overall design style guide into themes for WordPress. For a while I was developing themes for other CMSs, but found that I was getting involved in WordPress to great depth for customers very quickly. I now run my own business from home, and a lot of my time is spent with WordPress. I’m mostly designing and developing one of custom themes for customers for my business and also as part of my employment for a design agency based in Brisbane. I use underscores.me a lot as the base and develop from that, but am now also building custom themes to run on the Genesis Framework. Recent work (as of 2014 to 2015), has seen me work on e-commerce sites and membership sites that link to Infusionsoft.
I submitted my first fix to a WordPress Plugin recently via Github which was implemented and added to the Plugin Repository (WP Flipclock). I also went to my first WordCamp this year held in Brisbane.
I primarily class myself as a front end designer/developer rather than a hardcore coder, but I’m extremely comfortable developing WordPress Themes with PHP.
My future plans are to build a free WordPress Plugin, and develop a range of free and premium themes for the Genesis framework. I also plan to develop a range of publicly available standalone themes.