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spacer Barry Abrahamson Systems Wrangler

Blog: Barry on WordPress
Barry was born and raised on the banks of the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. During the day, he makes sure the servers are zipping along while trying not to get too much BBQ sauce on his keyboard and at night… ok, well, he’s doing the same :) When he’s not on AIM, ICQ, Jabber, IRC, or reading about the latest and greatest in MySQL optimization, Barry enjoys traveling and playing a little lacrosse.

spacer Jamil Abreu Brainstormer-in-Residence

Jamil joined the Akismet team after living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic doing some cool stuff with Major League Baseball. While in college he helped start an awesome conference for Dominican-American college students (on.fb.me/1sCCSCa) and has been known to dabble in DJing, poetry, poker, philosophy, and web development. When not brainstorming ways to engineer happiness, his heart is in being a “connector” and figuring out new ways to poke a hole in the universe.

spacer Michael Adams Quantum Bug Creator

Blog: Blogwaffe
After escaping Moscow (Idaho), Mike has been hiding in academia for 20 or so years. We stole him from a PhD in Quantum Information at Caltech to join the real world, or as close as we get to the real world around here. In between carnitas tacos, because apparently there is no good BBQ in Southern California, Mike hacks on bbPress and the javascripty bits of WordPress.

spacer Shaun Andrews Designer

Blog: Where am I…
Shaun never knew what he wanted to do. Like George Costanza, he always wanted to pretend to be an Architect. Somewhere along the way, he managed to score a B.S. in Engineering, minoring in math and physics. That degree quickly fell by the wayside, as his heart pushed him toward design. That was nearly 10 years ago. These days, Shaun can be found obsessing over details while tilting his head like a confused dog. He dribbbles way to much, and tweets continuously.

spacer Mikey Arce Happiness Engineer

Blogs: mikeyarce.com, mikeyarcemunoz.com
Born in the highest city in the world, La Paz, Bolivia, Mikey now makes his home in beautiful Vernon, British Columbia. When he’s not busy engineering happiness on WordPress.com, he can be found helping his wife with their hobby farm, learning a new instrument, playing tennis, or birding in his backyard.

spacer Richard Archambault Happiness Rocketeer

Blogs: Richardmtl.ca, MexicoMetro.org

A proud Montrealer, Richard grew up speaking French and English, and he later learned Spanish after several trips to Latin America, including a semester in Mexico City where he met his wife and the mother of his two boys. With a degree in Linguistics under his belt, he almost began a career in translation before he fell in love with the Web’s most popular languages, HTML and CSS. Well-known for being a WordPress keener, he gets to spread joy as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic.

spacer Michael Arestad Sass-Kicker

Blog: blog.michaelarestad.com
Michael was born in Texas and raised in Colorado. He lives in sunny downtown Denver. When he’s not moving pixels around on an array of screens, Michael is either making CSS do backflips, skiing, enjoying scifi, or playing pinball in one of the arcades. Say hello on twitter!

spacer Mark Armstrong Editorial Team

Blog: Markarms.com
Mark joined the Automattic family by way of Longreads, a service he founded in 2009. He’s now on the WordPress.com Editorial team, helping work on new ways to find, share and create outstanding content. Mark spent 11 years in New York before returning to his California roots in 2012.

spacer Karen Arnold Happiness Organizer

Blog: Karen’s Blog
Karen Arnold (pronounced Car-en) and her husband, 4 children, 4 cats, and approximately 10 chickens, live in sunny Albuquerque, New Mexico. When she isn’t engineering happiness at WordPress.com, she helps her husband homeschool their energetic kiddos, tries to blog regularly, and brainstorms ways to meet every WordPress user in New Mexico.

spacer Joen Asmussen Design Wrangler

Blog: Noscope
Working out of Denmark, Joen loves good design and good usability, and strives for both. When he’s not wrangling design, he’s really into Sweden, science fiction books and Sonic Youth. He also does posters once in a while, just for fun.

spacer Marjorie Asturias Happiness Engineer

Blog: My Life on Automattic

Marjorie’s friends and family still can’t believe she landed her dream job, let alone a job that has the word Engineer in the title. She’s lived and worked in too many places to count but now calls Dallas home. When she’s not engineering happiness for WordPress.com users, she volunteers for a local animal rescue group, rescues and fosters the occasional stray or shelter dog, hangs out with her husband and their dogs, adds one more page to her never-ending war novel, and reads. A lot. Girl can’t stop reading to save her life. She also hangs out on Twitter a lot, but don’t hold that against her.

spacer Marco Aurélio Code Wrangler

Blog: Marco’s Blog

After graduating in 2012 as a Computer Engineer at CEFET-MG, Marco joined the team that eventually built Cloudup, now part of Automattic. He’s currently based on his hometown of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, in the southeast of Brazil. On his free time, Marco enjoys watching Japanese animation, playing classic and indie video games and reading about science and technology.

spacer Nikolay Bachiyski Meta Engineer

Blogs: extrapolate.me, Аз, света и сметачите
Younger than even Matt, Nikolay is blogging from small but beautiful Bulgaria. He makes sure the eskimo teens can blog in their native language. When not in front of the computer, Nikolay is either in Sofia University, torturing freshmen, or wandering around Bulgaria. Being like House, M.D. is his secret dream, although quite unattainable, having in mind his lovable nature.

spacer Andrea Badgley Happiness Engineer

Blogs: Butterfly Mind, Andrea Reads America

Andrea grew up on the coast of Georgia, met her future husband in the Florida Keys, and now lives with him and their two children in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. She has a BS in ecology and has spent time wintering in Maine and Minnesota, racing bicycles and triathlons, extracting beetle DNA, tending butterfly gardens, and reading lots and lots of fiction. She writes. She hikes. She engineers joy. If she had her ‘druthers, she’d spend her days laughing and eating pastries.

spacer Hugo Baeta Rainbow Wrangler

Blog: Just Hugo
Born and raised in sunny Lisbon, Portugal, Hugo has been a WordPress fanboy ever since he started using it. Some people in the Portuguese web scene call him the “WordPress guy” and he even has a couple of tattoos to prove his dedication! At Automattic he works on making things look good and more social on WordPress.com

spacer Siobhan Bamber Happiness Engineer

Siobhan engineers happiness as part of the WordPress.com store crew. She’s a great believer in the power of Free and Open Source Software and contributes back to the WordPress.org project where she can. Outside of the web, she loves travelling, writing, and spending time with her family in the beautiful town of Barry, Wales.

spacer Rick Banister Designer

Rick designs and builds things in Philadelphia. He is an interface designer helping to make the lives of Happiness Engineers happier. He enjoys rock climbing, learning to surf, and woodworking. He doesn’t particularly enjoy writing about himself in the third person.

spacer Jerry Bates Happiness Engineer

Blog:  jerrysarcastic.wordpress.com

Jerry is a classically trained photographer living in the heart of Silicon Valley. A self-taught coder and designer, he picked up WordPress one day in 2007 while looking for an easy way to create an online portfolio, and has never left.   As a Happiness Engineer he works hard to help make WordPress fun, trouble-free, and well happy! In his off time he is a “serial-hobbyist” who enjoys breaking things so he can put them together again.

spacer Deborah Beckett Happiness Engineer

Deborah Beckett lives with her husband and two kids in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. She earned a degree in Journalism, specializing in Multimedia & Web Design, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been building web sites and training users for over 15 years. When not engineering happiness, she enjoys running, travel, and spending time with her family.

spacer Paolo Belcastro Shopherd

Blogs: Paolo Belcastro, Chic & Geek
As a true European nomad, and after Italy, France, and Switzerland, Paolo currently lives in Vienna, Austria, from where he leads the WordPress.com Store Division. When not thinking about WordPress, he is usually absorbed by his other passion, photography.

spacer Jorge Bernal Mobile Engineer

Blog: Jorge Bernal
Jorge is the first Automattician in Spain, and works on the mobile team making WordPress for iOS awesome. He is a WordPress user since before it was WordPress, and a big fan of everything Apple. Loves photography, good wine and discovering new cities.

spacer Spencer Berry Happiness Engineer

Blog: spencerberry.com

Spencer is a California native living on the East Coast.  He has spent more hours playing with toys than most kids, including a seven year stint as a Professional Yoyo Demonstrator for Duncan Toys.  He has a love for cinema and filmmaking, mostly drawn to absurdly well crafted epics that leave the mind bubbling for weeks after a viewing, like There Will Be Blood or The Fountain.  His mustache is here to stay.

spacer Josh Betz VIP Axe Sharpener

Blog: JoshBetz.com
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 2013, Josh joined Automattic to help wrangle code for WordPress.com VIP. When he isn’t making stuff awesome, he is probably running a race or cheering for the Badgers.

spacer Maxime Biais Mobile Developer

Blog: Biais.org
Maxime is a software engineer living in Paris, France. He loves to code for mobile devices, iOS and Android, phone and tablet. Maxime likes to sail, but only with a perfect weather, his friends and some fresh beers in the hold.

spacer Sheri Bigelow Creativity Cultivator

Blogs: Design Simply, Cuteness

Sheri can usually be found experimenting with CSS, speaking at WordCamps, skiing the Rockies, or exploring the Adirondacks.

spacer Eric Binnion Code Wrangler

Blog: Man of Hustle
Eric hails from the great state of Texas. Early on, Eric pursued the medical field, but soon found his way to Computer Science and programming where he is most happy.

When not wrangling code, Eric is finishing up his last few classes for college or spending time with his family.

spacer Andrea Lee Bishop Happiness Engineer

Andrea (pronounced Ahhhn-dreee-ahhh) enjoys playing the piano, singing, skiing, traveling, and drinking a good Dirty Vanilla Chai. After graduating with degrees in Applied Mathematics and German, she worked for a software company for 11 years doing web design, software education, and technical documentation. Now she engineers happiness for Automattic and puts all those skills to work.

spacer Alx Block Happiness Engineer

Blog: AlxBlock.com
It’s not clear whether the ‘e’ was left out of his name on purpose, if it’s a persistent typo, or just an autocorrect fail. Alx hails from the City of Brotherly Love, where he lives with his awesome wife and two awesome kids. His background is in book publishing sales and marketing and he has a degree in Spanish language, literature, and linguistics (which is clearly the most useful degree for engineering happiness.) While not attached to a screen, Alx enjoys telling bad jokes and teaching magic tricks to his kids.

spacer Chris Blower JavaScript Wrangler

Chris fell in love with coding at a very young age, and has always wanted to make the world a better place, through software.
When not getting frustrated by ridiculously complicated origami, or dissolving his stomach with super hot Thai chili-beef – you can find him travelling, sipping on a nice glass of wine and munching on some good food.
Originally from Liverpool, UK – Chris is now adapting to life in foggy London Town.

spacer Steve Blythe angry.scot

Blogs: iamsteve.in | allmyfriendsarejpegs.com

Born in Switzerland, but very much Scottish, (Clicky) Steve lives in the glorious City of Glasgow, in Scotland. After wasting his youth on Usenet and scripting IRC actions, he took to giving technical support to an independent tech company, before slowly sliding into the muddy realms of digital marketing. Somehow, he managed to collect a degree in Law from the University of Glasgow along the way, and is now studying for an LLM Masters in Internet Law & Policy. When not havering on about digital rights, he’s probably to be found making music on modified Gameboys, messing about with film photographs, or waking up in strange places.

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