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John Richards II

Head of Developer Relations at Paladin Cloud

@rastaban St. Louis, MO joined Aug 2014

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    Bio

    John is the Head of Developer Relations at Paladin Cloud and is passionate about connecting people and evangelizing the value of open source. He has been growing open-source communities for half a decade, focusing on educational content and thought leadership.

    John lives near St. Louis, MO, with his wife and a clowder of cats. Apart from work, John enjoys playing board games with friends, trying new food, and reading with a cat curled in his lap.

    WordPress Origin Story

    John has been a web developer since 2007 and fell in love with open source in 2013 when he took a job developing WordPress sites at Washington University in St. Louis. When WordCamp US came to St. Louis in 2019, he volunteered as an organizer.

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    Current Job

    Head of Developer Relations
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    Paladin Cloud

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    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 5.5

    Contributions

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    September 2021
    Sep 30 Thu · 19:40
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post PROPOSAL: Ensuring high-quality video contributions to Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Training:
    I really appreciate the well thought out approach here. I think it's a great way…
    November 2020
    Nov 20 Fri · 21:53
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Introducing Twenty Twenty-One, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Late to the party, but this looks awesome. Can't wait for it to drop 🙌
    June 2020
    Jun 06 Sat · 11:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [47919] on WordPress SVN:
    Bootstrap/Load: Introduce `wp_get_environment_type()` to retrieve the current environment type.
    May 2019
    May 23 Thu · 12:57
    Meta high
    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp US 2019