Performance Engineer for WordPress and WooCommerce. I help make the web faster for everyone, users, customers, clients, stakeholders developers and employees through education and consulting.
Interests
WordPress and WooCommerce Performance and scaling throughout the entire stack from frontend to backend, database, hosting and infrastructure.
Troubleshooting using New Relic, Chrome Dev Tools and custom bash scripts, WP-CLI and enterprise-grade bespoke WordPress plugins.
WordPress Origin Story
I was very bored in school for my Network Systems Engineering degree so I started making tutorials for setting up your own media server at home using WordPress.
I published tutorials every day for free to share the knowledge. The website got popular and started crashing from the traffic so I had to learn how to handle the visitor load despite being on a tight student budget.
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.9 Frontend Performance Field Guide, on the site Make WordPress Core: Thank you so much for your efforts on this @Weston Ruter! It's amazing to see…