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Tom Auger

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Art & Science Experience Design

@tomauger Toronto, Canada joined Sep 2007

www.tomauger.com Slack: @tomauger

    Bio

    Developer, designer and Chief Technology Officer at Art & Science Experience Design in Toronto, Canada.

    I’m actively involved in the WordPress community – both at a local level through co-organizing WordCamp Toronto, and monthly core hackfests through the Toronto WordPress Meetup Group, and at the global level by speaking at WordCamps, contributing to the Codex, and through my involvement with the core development process. I continue to try to find opportunities to contribute whenever my busy project schedule (and family life) allow!

    I cycle to work, teach digital media, and fumble around at both WordPress and raising a family (though not necessarily in that order), and compose electronic and contemporary classical music when I can.

    Interests

    IoT, Cycling, Hacking, Social Good, Teaching, Learning, Kids.

    WordPress Origin Story

    When I first started using WordPress, I was all “I’m a seasoned PHP developer, I can hack anything!” My first WordPress project was (and still is!) a disaster.

    Eventually, I got more familiar with the core code and discovered the WordPress Way. It’s possible to write amazing, beautiful, elegant, structured, compliant, future-proof and self-documenting WordPress plugins, themes and customizations if you take the time to learn the Core.

    What’s the best way to do this? Contribute to core! Join your local WordPress Meetup group, or Contrib2Core circle and start giving back, and learning while you do!

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
    Present
    Art & Science Experience Design

    Recent impact

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 7 releases
    • 7.0
    • 4.7
    • 3.9
    • 3.7
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2026
    Feb 27 Fri · 19:14
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61757] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Make filters & image selection usable by voice control.
    January 2017
    Jan 17 Tue · 22:00
    Core med
    Created ticket #39618 on Core Trac:
    Insert PDF Thumbnail into Editor
    October 2016
    Oct 26 Wed · 07:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [38949] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Add support for rendering PDF thumbnails.
    August 2016
    Aug 05 Fri · 03:36
    Meta high
    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Toronto 2016
    July 2016
    Jul 15 Fri · 21:07
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2016
    October 2015
    Oct 03 Sat · 23:21
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Code Reviews and Site Clinics, on the site WordCamp Toronto 2015:
    Site clinics and code reviews have been finalized from Saturday's sign-up list! Please look up…
    September 2015
    Sep 23 Wed · 14:47
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Featured Speaker: Seth Alling, on the site WordCamp Toronto 2015:
    Updated :)
    Sep 23 Wed · 13:57
    Meta high
    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Toronto 2015
    Sep 22 Tue · 14:29
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2015
    November 2014
    Nov 13 Thu · 05:43
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2014