Haruna Ooki
From Ehime prefecture. Established Seikatsu Henshushitsu in 2011, after experience of working in editorial Dep. at local information magazine of Ehime, free-writer, and working at web production company. In 2017, her husband joined Seikatsu Henshushitsu. She works on branding through hearing of shops, companies and sole proprietors taking advantage of long time interview experience. She focuses on creating contents for publishing, and websites, paper based contents. Leads branding magazine, Seikatsu Henshushitsu.
Naoko Murakami
Freelancer in Yamaguchi city. Ond of the organizers of WordBench Yamaguchi and a member of “Creativehunt Yamaguchi.”
Mother of a 3-year-old daughter and wife of a husband.
After marriage, she left the Windows application development company, immigrated to Yamaguchi city, and started working as an assistant photographer. When welcoming a baby, she started undertaking photo retouch and development works at home, and her work has expanded to DTP and web creation.
Ellen Bauer
Ellen and Manuel, a husband and wife team, create minimal WordPress themes which they sell on their Elmastudio website. Both are originally from Germany and now living and working from their home office in a small seaside town in New Zealand.
Manuel Esposito
Ellen and Manuel, a husband and wife team, create minimal WordPress themes which they sell on their Elmastudio website. Both are originally from Germany and now living and working from their home office in a small seaside town in New Zealand.
Mike Schroder
Mike Schroder is a cross-cultural kid, coffee-drinking sailor, and lover of Open Source.
He’s a WordPress Core Developer, WordPress Media component maintainer, and works as Director of WordPress Strategy at DreamHost. You can find him blogging on geeky things from time to time at GetSource.net.
Junko Nukaga
Freelance web designer, loves to take photo and write. She moved to Ogijima from Osaka. In Ogijima, Junko operates a small private library called Ogijima Library. A member of WordPress global community team. Born in Fukushima prefecture.
Sachi Majima
Freelancer focusing on DTP and web design in Kochi City. She became a freelancer in 2016 after self-studying web design while working on DTP design at design office. Sachi moved to Kochi City in 2011 after working at editorial design office in Tokyo. Born in Hyogo prefecture.
Hiroki Saiki
Engineer aiming to become a front-end engineer. Joined web development company, mgn from Oct 2017.
Hiroki began career in web after resigning from being a mechanic at Ducati tuning shop for 17 years from back pain. After a year of working in self-catering company, joined web development company from June 2012 focusing on WordPress construction and HTML/ CSS markup, also began instructor job from April 2016.
He has participated as a staff in many web related events, ranging from WordPress study sessions, such as WordCamp Tokyo, WordBench Tokyo, and CSS nite, HTML5 Conference, JavaScript matsuri, DIST etc.
Genki Taniguchi
Genki is in charge of Sakura rental server, SLL/domain sale, service planning of CDN service at SAKURA Internet in Osaka. He has experience as web director in production company, business corporation, and web related company from 2004.
Kaisho Damonte
Baker, coffee roaster, wild boar hunter and staff of Damonte Co., a bakery with good foods on Ogijima. Damonte Co. was built after Kaisho renovated a 100 years old barn. Begun living in Ogijima from 2016, where he became to like it while traveling throughout the world with his wife. Beginner in WordPress, however created the bakery shop website using WordPress by grope, and use WooCommerce for mail order.
Studied archaeology in university and began career as researcher, however resigned after feeling limitation. From Shiga prefecture.
Fumiki Takahashi
Novelist. Began career as a novel writer in 2001, and met WordPress in 2007 while searching for a place to present online of his own works. He is also a WordPress plugin developer, WordCamp Tokyo 2016 committee head, chief editor of WordPress specialized media Capital P. Host of online literary magazine Hametuha, and CEO of Hametuha inc.
From Chiba prefecture. A DIYer building a house in Yamanashi prefecture. Father of three kids (two are fraternal twins) scrambling family management.
Naoko Takano
Naoko joined Automattic, a company delivering world’s top share rental blog service WordPress.com, Jetpack plugins etc. from 2009 by working 100% remote. Currently engaged in localization at internationalization team and managing translation community. Also conducts activities to deliver the product to many more users using various languages, through the role of team mentor for WordPess.org Japanese translation editors and polyglots team.
Lives in Tokyo, a mother of two kids.