Kinsta Kingpin: Interview with Mario Peshev

You can find Mario on LinkedIn or Twitter. This is our recent interview with him, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What is your background, & how did you first get involved with WordPress?
I got obsessed with computers back in 1996 when my parents bought my first personal computer (100MHz CPU, 16MB of RAM, 421MB HDD). Good times!
Later on I built my first static website in 1999 and continued tinkering with tech over the next few years, coding a lot, and reading even more (despite of the limited amount of information available online back in the day).
In 2005 the media agency I was working with decided to build a new blogging platform, and we had to do some R&D accordingly. I had used LiveJournal and Blogger before, but WordPress seemed pretty cool, and I played with it for a while. Over the coming years we had dev projects that relied on WordPress, and around 2011 we’ve transitioned to building WP gigs exclusively.
Q2: What should readers know about all the stuff you’re doing in WordPress these days?
Over the past 6 years I’ve been actively involved with various WordPress community activities – from co-organizing the local meetup and several
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