Lance Willett's schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2025

June 23 - 25, 2025
Denver, Colorado
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Lance Willett

Automattic

Chief Quality Officer

About me

Lance Willett leads quality at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Gravatar, and more. With over 15 years in open source, Lance aims to create enduring value through freemium business models. Known for web publishing and CMS, he’s an emeritus core committer for WordPress as “Theme Wrangler.” Previously, he scaled HubSpot’s CMS Hub and led product and engineering at Tumblr. As a fan of puns and sci-fi, Lance is currently reading a book about anti-gravity; it’s impossible to put down. Born in Mexico, and based in Arizona.

My Speakers Sessions

4:30pm MDT

Sponsored BoF: Cultivating Quality in Open Source: Modern Strategies for Shared Responsibility - Lance Willett, Automattic Bluebird Ballroom 3H