Ian Wilson is an incredibly talented designer, developer and break dancer. How do those skills relate? Trust me they do. I never miss a chance to see Ian talk, he delivers brilliant insights with the perfect about of wit. You should also listen to his podcast. Let’s learn more about him.

What drives you to speak at WordCamps?

The look on peoples’ faces as they agree, disagree, or maybe start to see things in a new light, and that is a magical thing. Getting feedback, as well as simply gaining more experience as a speaker is incredibly valuable and insightful.

What would you like to see change about the WordPress platform in the next 5-10 years?

I would love to see the core become more opinionated, more honed and carefully curated— efficient and lightweight. Continue to be a rock solid foundation and let the development economy thrive in providing different flavors of platform extension- eCommerce, eLearning, visual website builders, etc.

Who do you think is under represented in the WordPress community?

I can’t say that anything jumps to mind, the WordPress community in my experience has been inclusive and diverse.

What was the most challenging WordPress project you’ve worked on?

Easily answered! Managing a transition of over 70k SKU’s from different vendors into WooCommerce. The post_meta table hit over 2.3 million rows. Let me tell you, importing that many products on a weekly basis for managing inventory, remapping fields to better organize products, removing discontinued products, etc is pure insanity. It’s easily the most challenging project I’ve worked on and there are still product attributes that must be managed by hand.

Where can people find more about you?

buildcreate.com/about or on Twitter @wilsonography. Some day I’ll actually have a personal site…