I have a PhD in Engineering Physics and worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Planetary Science Institute before leaving planetary sciences due to budget restrictions. I have been programming in UNIX since 1986, designed my first websites using a text editor in the late 1990’s and have been working with WordPress since early 2015. While I don’t have as much experience with WordPress as some, I have spent a fair amount of time trying to eek out as much speed as possible from WordPress installs. I am also a bit of a fanatic when it comes to security. I am also a Certified Professional Photographer, which is the main reason I got into website construction in the first place (https://www.chiledogphoto.com). I run WordPress exclusively on Digital Ocean servers managed through Serverpilot.io as I got burned by the EIG monster ;). However, I am looking forward to implementing WordPress on CoreOS with Tectonic.