Tim: What’s your WordPress “origin” story?<\/p>\n
Tim: Whats your top 3 WordPress plugins? Why?<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/ol>\n Tim: Whats your most proud achievement around WordPress?<\/p>\n Tim: What do you want our readers to know about you?<\/p>\n Tim: Define yourself with one word.<\/p>\n I consider Nik a friend and I’m excited that’s he’s speaking in Hampton Roads. I heard him speak at WordCamp Minneapolis earlier this year, and you won’t want to miss his talk on the WordPress REST API<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tim: What’s your WordPress “origin” story? At 13 years old, I wanted to start blogging and find a simple way to create my websites. Eventually, that got me into a WordCamp where I was inspired to do more with WordPress and even had a few people help me learn PHP, Javascript, CSS, etc. Since then, … Continue reading Speaker Interview: Nik Vimal<\/span>
\nAt 13 years old, I wanted to start blogging and find a simple way to create my websites. Eventually, that got me into a WordCamp where I was inspired to do more with WordPress and even had a few people help me learn PHP, Javascript, CSS, etc. Since then, I’ve been developing and eventually launched my business, TechVoltz LLC.
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\nI’ve been a WordPress core contributor for a few releases.
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\nBy day, I still go to High School. I’ve also already interned at some big companies in WordPress such as Rocketgenius, Pods, and iThemes. I’m also big into the startup community, even releasing a non-WordPress product this past summer (thezweekly.com). I also have made contributions to PHP.
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\nAmbitious
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