Introducing Alfredo Navas

Alfredo Navas is a full-stack designer and front-end developer. He’s a web artisan and WordPress wrangler who organizes a WordPress meetup where he lives in Costa Rica, and is an organizer of WordCamp San José.

Show Notes

Website | elpuas.com

Twitter | @3LPU4S

Meetup | Costa Rica WordPress Meetup

Episode Transcript

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Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 32.

Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Liam Dempsey.

Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today, we’re joined by Alfredo Navas. Alfredo is a full-stack designer and front-end developer. He’s a web artisan and WordPress wrangler who organizes a WordPress meetup where he lives in Costa Rica, and is an organizer of WordCamp San José. Hi, Alfredo.

Alfredo: Hello, Tara. Hello, Liam. Thanks for the call.

Liam: Hey, Alfredo. Thanks for joining us. You’re welcome, thanks for joining us. Tara told us a little bit about you, tell us a little bit more?

Alfredo: Well, I live in Costa Rica. I was actually born in Peru from Italian parents and then when I was around 11, I moved to Costa Rica and I’ve been here since then. It’s almost 30 years. I started as designer and I turned into developer, and now I’m full in on everything regardless to WordPress. Organizing meetups, I was the lead organizer of last year’s WordCamp San José, and I’m part of the organization for this year’s WordCamp San José. I’m also a speaker on some WordCamps. I was invited last year to WordCamp Managua to give a chat, and I’m probably going to be a speaker this year, too, on WordCamp [Managua.

Tara: Great. How did you discover WordPress?

Alfredo: It’s kind of a funny story. I was working maybe 10 years ago in a company that they had their own CMS, they developed their own CMS and they called it The Beast. But it was so hard for a regular customer to modify and add content and images, so I started looking and I found WordPress and I said, “Oh, wow. This is very easy to use.” And I got hooked up since then. It’s been 10 years already and I can say WordPress changed my life. I know it’s a cliche word but, actually, it did. I’m traveling more, I’ve been knowing a lot of people. The community is something that I love and I think it’s like the most important thing WordPress has, this wonderful community of people around the world. Every time I go to a WordCamp, I know really nice people. I met Liam on a WordCamp Miami and I’ve been friend with James from Orlando, Zach Gordon,