Born in the UK, and based in Manchester, Tom Nowell is a VIP Wrangler at Automattic, a long-time PHP developer, and an elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. Working full time with WordPress, He’s spoken at several WordCamps in the UK and Europe, and dabble in computer game AI.
He got started with WordPress when a PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, he graduated to building WordPress sites professionally, and the rest is history