Meet our second group of WordCamp Bern speakers – Mircea Tihu, Dominik Schilling, Tomaz Zaman, Michael Sebel and Mark Howells-Mead.
Mircea Tihu
Mircea is a Software Engineer from Timisoara, Romania with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and master’s degree in Information Technology. He’s been working with WordPress for the past 6 years and is Dream Production AG‘s Lead WordPress developer. In his spare time he plays bass guitar for Marion Kräutner.
Dominik Schilling
Dominik Schilling is a Web Developer at required and a WordPress core developer with a strong passion for WordPress. He led the WordPress 4.6 release, is the technical lead of the Polyglots team and lead developer of GlotPress, a collaborative, web-based software translation tool. Since that’s not enough he also takes part in the WordPress.org meta and security teams to make translate.wordpress.org more awesome and WordPress more secure. Dominik is mostly known as @ocean90.
Tomaž Zaman
Born and raised in central Slovenia. After having moved to the most remote part of the country with my family, had to look online for work and found a couple of issues that online outsourcing services have and decided to build my own.
Having 0 experience with WordPress at the time was quite a challenge, but luckily the community is warm and welcoming and the business is growing ever since because there’s a need for a matchmaking service like ours.
When I’m not managing the team of currently 12 people, I like to write JavaScript. I‘m a geek, I know.
Off work, I’m a husband, a father of 4 kids and a passionate Skydiver.
Michael Sebel
Michael is not really using WordPress. But he’s developing custom solutions on top of it since about seven years. Which is maybe why he doesn’t take the time to actually blog. Nearly three years ago he founded comotive along with his companion Martin Ott and a network of freelancers from all over switzerland. He is very fond of high performance, complex and custom websites, automation, highly available web clusters and therefore the technical lead at his own WordPress agency. For 25 cents he will – decided by mt_rand() – rant or chant about project Gutenberg for a good hour.
Mark Howells-Mead
Mark has been using WordPress since version 1.0 and is a keen collaborator in the Swiss WordPress community. He moved to the Alps in 2001 and has built a career around CMS-driven websites, with a particular focus on plugin development, frontend development and user interface concept work. Mark has been blogging at permanenttourist.ch since 2004 and is Head of Development at WordPress agency cubetech.