Profiles

My interest always is and always will be to make WordPress bigger.

How? By growing the community base, bringing more people together to collaborate on the project. I do this through ideas that foster a positive atmosphere, whether at a Meetup or by organizing small local events.

If there’s one thing I’ve realized in my professional career, it’s the lack of awareness that, even though everyone knows WordPress as an open-source CMS, very few agencies knew that a community even existed.

And that’s when I saw clearly where I could make a difference. I don’t know how to code or design, but I do know how to communicate and I know how to organize and bring people together to make them part of something small, so that from that starting point, the Meetup can expand toward whatever teams or areas of the community they choose.

It’s my small contribution, maybe a modest one, but as the saying goes: “Many little efforts add up to something big.”

I’m Josep, born and raised in Rocafonda, a humble, working-class neighborhood in Mataró.

I come from a family that has worked with wood lovingly for three generations. Carpentry was always our trade, our way of understanding life and making a living.

For many years, I worked with wood, shaping it with the same hands and patience I learned at home.

At the same time, my curiosity led me down other paths: interior design and technical drawing as a draftsman, where I discovered the joy of imagining spaces before building them.

> The turning point

Everything changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when my heart decided to stop beating properly. A genetically inherited heart condition forced me to stop completely and look at life from a new perspective.

Suddenly, everything I had taken for granted health, routines, the simple act of making plans disappeared, just as my life almost did.

But it didn’t.

I pulled through. With after-effects, yes, but with an incredible desire to live. Out of that will to live came the decision to reinvent myself and study while recovering.

> New life, new goals

There were twenty-six months of rehabilitation, relapses, and the search for an effective treatment.

Yet amid all that chaos, I managed to step back and turn my skills into a new opportunity.

I studied Content Marketing and discovered a well-known secret for many, but something entirely new for a carpenter from a neighborhood in Mataró:

WordPress.

And with it, its community.

> Metamorphosis

And then… everything changed.

I discovered WordPress through my marketing studies, and thanks to our beloved CMS, I created my first blog. I still keep the logo and some of my early posts, remnants of a time when I was learning to tell stories and give shape to ideas.

In May 2023, I volunteered at my first WordCamp in Barcelona. The experience opened my eyes to a new universe full of generous, passionate people eager to share.

I quickly connected with the community and joined the Mentorship Program, a global initiative from the Community Team. I was one of the first eleven mentees in the world. For me, it was a dream come true.

Shortly afterward, I began combining my increasingly active contributions with the same program, this time as a mentor. I had received so much from the community that my gratitude pushed me to give back that knowledge and share those values with anyone willing to listen.

I continued collaborating as a volunteer, speaker, and documentation table participant at WordCamp Europe Torino 2024. It was a step forward in every sense: from learning to teaching, from receiving to contributing.

I also began managing the Spain Handbook documentation alongside members of the global WordPress community and the WordPress community in Spain. Together, we laid the foundations for a project that, like everything in WordPress, is built with patience and community.

At the same time, I joined the global documentation team for WordPress version 6.6, “Dorsey.”

> Rising from my ashes

Thanks to WordPress and its community, I grew as both a person and a professional in a new discipline as competitive as it is exciting and alive.

They supported me through the hardest moments and helped me rise again, like a phoenix from the ashes.

At the end of 2023, through the Five for the Future initiative, Wetopi, a high-performance managed hosting company dedicated exclusively to WordPress sites, placed its trust in a newcomer to the industry and offered me a full-time position where I could unleash all the creativity I had inside.

> Present and future

If there’s one thing I learned during my illness, it’s to enjoy the moment and not worry so much about the future.

That is my focus now: the present, always grateful to all those who helped me become who I am today.

I have a new job, new friends, and I could almost say a new family, and it’s all thanks to WordPress.

Many people tell me that if I weren’t so resilient, persistent, and determined, I wouldn’t have achieved any of this.

I simply smile and think that all those qualities were brought to light one day by members of the global WordPress community and the WordPress community in Spain, together with WordPress and its community.