You can find Tim 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?
Like a lot of folks in our industry, I got into web design as a hobby at quite a young age. Building websites in Microsoft FrontPage and then Macromedia Dreamweaver and ColdFusion. I trained in sports & outdoor education at college and went into that industry directly from there. Web design was something I did in the evenings and at weekends for fun. As part of that, I ended up building a few websites for friends and family and then at around 18 landed my first paid work, slicing some PSDs into a static HTML website. No Tables! I loved the feeling and decided to try my hand at freelancing. By this time I was playing around with WordPress (early 2005), using it for my blog etc. I decided to list myself as a WordPress developer which turned out to have been a good decision. I was hired quickly and ended up working on some of the early large-scale WordPress installs, sites like http://geek.com. I continued to contract directly with clients until I was so busy that setting up an agency
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